In May, I wrote about some interesting rulings from the Middle District of Tennessee related to the “good cause” standard in False Claims Act (FCA) cases. Under 31 U.S.C. § 3730(c)(3), If the [...]

Earlier this month, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee (USAO) announced that it had charged Fadel Alshalabi, the owner and Chief Executive Officer of Spring Hill, [...]

The Middle District of Tennessee has made some interesting rulings in the False Claims Act (FCA) space of late. These cases merit attention from those working in healthcare or any industry [...]

It is not surprising that False Claim Act (FCA) and white-collar fraud headlines continue to be dominated by healthcare and COVID-19 relief fraud allegations. These undoubtedly remain areas of [...]

If you follow this blog regularly, you are familiar with me preaching about electronic health records (EHR) systems and EHR-related fraud being a priority of the Department of Justice (DOJ). In [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, come gather around ye olde water cooler (virtually, you know, because COVID), it’s that time of year. It is time for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) annual [...]

In my first SRVH blog, I wrote about federal charges brought in the Middle District of Tennessee against Dr. James L Crabb relating to an alleged telehealth scheme. Back in July, I wrote a blog [...]

On November 16, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) issued its first Special Fraud Alert (SFA) in over six years. The SFA addresses speaker [...]

Over the last few months, I have written and spoken a fair amount about electronic health records (EHR) systems. For example, in March, I wrote about how EHRs are increasingly targets of [...]

Under the False Claims Act (FCA), the United States gets an initial 60-day period to determine whether to intervene in a whistleblower’s qui tam action, during which time the complaint remains [...]