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HHS OIG Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2013
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released its Work Plan for…
HHS and Private Payers Announce Partnership to Prevent Healthcare Fraud
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder announced the launch of…
Friedman vs. Sebelius: Purdue Executive Exclusion Upheld, but Terms Voided…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia recently held in Friedman v. Sebelius that the Department of Health and…
HHS OIG: Proposed Changes on Health Care Providers Self Reporting Fraud
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced in the Federal…
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Settlement and Corporate Integrity Agreement
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history: $3 Billion from…
Merck Vioxx Corporate Integrity Agreement and Continuing Medical Education…
Recently Merck agreed to pay $950 million and pleaded guilty to a criminal charge over the marketing and sales of the painkiller…
HHS OIG Budget FY 2013 Compliance Assistance and Enforcement
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its FY 2013 budget for its various offices and sub-agencies, including…
HHS OIG: Pharmaceutical Compliance Roundtable 2012 Report
As we have covered numerous times over the past few years, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers have been increasingly…
Government Targeting Pharmaceutical Executives with Renewed Enthusiasm
Over the past several years, we have seen an increasing focusing on litigation and prosecution of large pharmaceutical and medical…
Healthcare Fraud Prosecution Significantly Increased in First Half of 2011
According to a recent clearinghouse report, federal criminal prosecutions of health care fraud are up—way up—this year. According…