Health Law Advisor

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

billion, FY 2021 marks DOJ’s largest annual total FCA recovery since FY 2014, and more than twice the $2.3 According to DOJ’s statistics, the government paid out $238 million to relators in FY 2021, the lowest number since FY 2008. With collections amounting to $5.6 billion received in FY 2020. KEY TAKEAWAYS.

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Fraud COVID-19 Governance Medicare 52

Hall Render

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The government initiated 296 FCA cases on its own last year without input of a relator, which is the highest volume of DOJ initiated cases since the 1986 FCA amendments. This has been a growing trend in health care enforcement, and health care fraud remained the leading source of all FCA cases in 2022. COVID-10 Related Fraud.

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Nursing Homes Fraud Medicaid Medicaid 40

Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 16, 2022

Enrollee Participation in Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan (“D-SNP”) Governance (§ 422.107). CMS believes its proposals would improve Federal and State oversight of D-SNPs (and their affiliated MCOs) through greater information-sharing among government regulators.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2021

Shkreli was ultimately convicted on securities fraud (not related to the Draprim pricing strategy). Early in the pandemic, many hospitals around the country took various punitive actions against staff who spoke out about safety issues on the front line of caring for patients diagnosed with COVID-19. government. (In

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COVID-19 Public Health COVID-19 Vaccine Doctors 62

Drug & Device Law

MARCH 31, 2023

Opposing attempts to use False Claims Act litigation to adjudicate scientific debate, here , in 2014. Ridiculing a blatantly unconstitutional Missouri statute that sought to silence pharmacists critical of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as treatments for COVID-19, just yesterday. American Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc. ,

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Medical Personnel COVID-19 Fraud Doctors 59