Paying a Marketing Company for Referrals? Beware!
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
If you pay independent contractors to market your healthcare services, read on. The United States Court of Appeals for the ...
Read More Eleventh Circuit Upholds Convictions for Patient Recruiter in Home Health Kickback Conspiracy
By Wesley Malkin |
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld convictions for a South Florida patient recruiter for conspiring to defraud the ...
Read More Telemedicine in OIG’s Crosshairs as Fraud Mounts
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
When the pandemic hit and a public health emergency was declared, the government began to issue waivers designed to give ...
Read More SCOTUS Declines to Review FCA Objective Falsity Standard
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The United States Supreme Court recently declined to take up two cases relating to whether a False Claims Act can ...
Read More HHA Owner First Charged With Stealing Money Meant to Treat COVID-19 Patients
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
A Michigan woman has become the first person in the country to be charged with stealing money meant to help ...
Read More HHS Rescinds Opioid Treatment Guidelines, Now What?
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Just days after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the creation of new guidelines designed to ...
Read More Labs Beware: Testing and Billing Every Specimen May Result in a False Claims Lawsuit
By Wesley Malkin |
Recently, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut, announced an $845 million settlement for a False Claims with ...
Read More EHR Companies Increasingly the Focus of DOJ Fraud Investigators
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
A Massachusetts-based electronic health records (EHR) company will pay more than $18 million to resolve allegations that it paid illegal ...
Read More Settling FCA Claim From the Great Beyond
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Just because you die, it doesn’t mean you can’t be held accountable for illegal activity conducted while you were still ...
Read More Audits and Oversight Top OIG’s Workplan List for January
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The January update to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Workplan ...
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