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Paying a Marketing Company for Referrals? Beware!

If you pay independent contractors to market your healthcare services, read on. The United States Court of Appeals for the ...
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Eleventh Circuit Upholds Convictions for Patient Recruiter in Home Health Kickback Conspiracy

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld convictions for a South Florida patient recruiter for conspiring to defraud the ...
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Telemedicine in OIG’s Crosshairs as Fraud Mounts

When the pandemic hit and a public health emergency was declared, the government began to issue waivers designed to give ...
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SCOTUS Declines to Review FCA Objective Falsity Standard

The United States Supreme Court recently declined to take up two cases relating to whether a False Claims Act can ...
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HHA Owner First Charged With Stealing Money Meant to Treat COVID-19 Patients

A Michigan woman has become the first person in the country to be charged with stealing money meant to help ...
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HHS Rescinds Opioid Treatment Guidelines, Now What?

Just days after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the creation of new guidelines designed to ...
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Labs Beware: Testing and Billing Every Specimen May Result in a False Claims Lawsuit

Recently, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut, announced an $845 million settlement for a False Claims with ...
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EHR Companies Increasingly the Focus of DOJ Fraud Investigators

A Massachusetts-based electronic health records (EHR) company will pay more than $18 million to resolve allegations that it paid illegal ...
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Settling FCA Claim From the Great Beyond

Just because you die, it doesn’t mean you can’t be held accountable for illegal activity conducted while you were still ...
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Audits and Oversight Top OIG’s Workplan List for January

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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