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 [...]

They say that paperwork waits for no one, and healthcare news does not pause over holidays. While many of us were grilling burgers and watching fireworks – with proper social distancing and [...]

Two weeks ago, I posted a blog about a recent False Claims Act (FCA) settlement at the intersection of healthcare and procurement fraud. In early March, I wrote about FCA and compliance issues [...]

While COVID-19 has most of us working remotely and searching for normalcy, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) civil fraud enforcement efforts continue unabated. On April 6, DOJ announced a $6.5 [...]

In March 2016, Tracy Powell, my colleague in SRVH’s Government Compliance & Investigations Practice, penned a blog on the emerging focus on individual liability in healthcare fraud cases. [...]

Scrutiny of electronic health records (EHR) systems and how healthcare providers use them is nothing new in government investigations. It is also not surprising given that the government has [...]