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Kickbacks
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Regulatory Oversight
Texas Reaches $45M Settlement With Gilead to Resolve Medicaid Kickback Allegations Over Patient-Support Programs
By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team
The state of Texas secured a $45 million settlement from Gilead Sciences Inc. over allegations that its patient-support programs improperly encouraged prescriptions for drugs covered by Medicaid. This case highlights…
Rivkin Rounds
Owner of Social Adult Day Care and Home Health Fiscal Intermediary Pleads Guilty
By Jeff Kaiser
Earlier this month, an owner of Brooklyn-based Happy Family Social Adult Day Care Center, Inc., Family Social Adult Day Care Center, Inc. and Responsible Care Staffing, Inc., a home health…
Med Law Blog
Medicare Fraud Crackdown: What Recent Enforcement Actions Tell Providers
Last summer, I wrote about the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launching a joint False Claims Act Working Group focused on Medicare fraud…
Criminal Jurisdiction
Health Care Fraud Is on the Rise, and Prosecutors Are Taking It Seriously
By Rebeca.pirela@alphacomarketing.com
Health care fraud has always been a problem for the nation’s health care system, and it isn’t going away. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office…
Rivkin Rounds
NY Ophthalmology Practices to Pay $2.3 Million to Resolve FCA Claims
By Chris Kutner
Two Long Island ophthalmology practices have agreed to return $2.3 million in payments from state and federal government programs based on the ordering of unnecessary trans-cranial doppler ultrasounds (TCDs). The…
The Consult
DOJ Issues First Healthcare Declination Under Revised Corporate Enforcement Policy: Key Takeaways for Healthcare Companies and MSOs
By Andrea Linna, Nawa Lodin, Seamus Taylor
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued its first healthcare-related corporate declination under its revised Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy, declining to prosecute a management services organization (MSO) while…
Health Law Diagnosis
Wound Care Under the Microscope: DOJ’s Data-Driven National Takedown Targets Fraudulent Reimbursements and Kickback Schemes
By Danielle Tangorre, Guest Contributor
This post is co-authored by Seth Orkand, co-chair of Robinson+Cole’s Government Enforcement + White-Collar Defense Team, and Abigail Salcedo, a 2026 Summer Associate at Robinson+Cole. Abigail is not admitted to practice law. On June…
The FCA Insider
First Healthcare Company Avoids Criminal Charges Under DOJ’s New Self-Disclosure Policy
By Brett Barnett, David Pivnick, Kelby Roth
On July 29, 2026, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that it declined to bring criminal charges against Campus Eye Management Holdings LLC and its subsidiary, Campus Eye Management LLC…
Inside the False Claims Act
What Happens in Vegas…Gets DOJ’s Attention: $95M Wound Care Fraud Indictment
By Denise Barnes, Emily Fountain, Ben Schrader, David Wilson
On August 5, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a federal grand jury in the District of Nevada returned a six-count indictment charging Stephen Dubin, M.D., of Henderson,…
Rivkin Rounds
NJ Pharmacy Exec Jailed for Kickback Scheme
By Syma Levine
Adam Brosius, a former pharmacy executive, was recently sentenced to 24 months in prison and ordered to pay $33 million in restitution and $27 million in forfeiture. Brosius was the…