On May 12, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division released a policy memorandum outlining its enforcement priorities for the upcoming year. The top priority for the division will be investigating and prosecuting white collar crimes related to waste,
On May 19, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice announced its new Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, which aims to use the False Claims Act (FCA) to investigate and pursue claims against entities that tolerate antisemitism, allow men to enter women’s
On March 6, 2025, federal prosecutors charged a Minnesota couple with orchestrating a $15 million healthcare fraud scheme involving overbilling and submission of false claims for neurofeedback and other behavioral health services performed by a network of behavioral health clinics.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released data on its 2024 settlements of voluntary self-disclosures related to past violations or potential violations of the physician self-referral law (the Stark Law). In 2024, CMS settled an agency record
On January 23, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit rejected a challenge to Advisory Opinion 22-19 (the “Advisory Opinion”) issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (“OIG”).
On February 20, 2025, during a speech to the Federal Bar Association’s annual qui tam conference, Michael Granston, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Commercial Litigation Branch at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), said that the Trump Administration will
