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Healthcare:

• Eleventh Circuit Reverses District Court’s Summary Judgment Order in AseraCare While Simultaneously Adopting Defense-Friendly View of FCA Falsity (AHLA Weekly)
• TRICARE Proposes Civil Monetary Penalties Authority (AHLA PG Alert) (Grubman)
• United States Supreme Court Set To Resolve Circuit Split Regarding False Claims Act Limitations Period (ABA Health Law Section Vol. 31, No. 3) (Grubman)
• “Rational Relationship” or “Unfettered Discretion”? The Government’s Authority to Dismiss a False Claims Act Qui Tam Action (AHLA) (Grubman)
• Top Government Enforcement Priorities in the Health Care Space (Journal of Health Care Compliance) (Grubman)
• Scott Grubman provided commentary to Bloomberg Law regarding a Texas health-care fraud case:  https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-south-texas-doctors-sentenced-prison-roles-separate-multi-million-dollar-medicare-fraud
• New Federal Kickback Statute Has Potential to Upend Sales and Marketing Payment Structure for Clinical Labs, Recovery Homes, and Treatment Facilities (AHLA) (Grubman)
• The New “War on Drugs”: The Government’s Continued Enforcement Focus on Opioid Prescribing and Distribution (The Georgia Defender) (Grubman)
• Third Circuit Rejects District Court’s Application of FCA’s Public Disclosure Bar, Reviving Relator’s Qui Tam Action (AHLA) (Grubman, Tanner)
• Compounding Pharmacy’s Pricing Drives $1.2M False Claims Pact (Bloomberg Law)
• Eleventh Circuit Revives False Claims Act Qui Tam, Adding to Circuit Split on Statute of Limitations Issue (AHLA PG Alert) (Grubman)
• Bipartisan Budget Bill Increases Civil Monetary Penalties for Health Care Fraud (AHLA PG Alert) (Grubman)
• The top government enforcement priorities in healthcare: View from the trenches (HCCA Compliance Today, Feb 2018) (Grubman)
• DOJ Memo Makes It Easier for Government to Dismiss Meritless False Claims Act Qui Tam Cases (AHLA PG Alert) (Grubman)
• From Epidemic to Crackdown: The Government’s Fight Against Opioid Fraud and Abuse (State Bar Health Law Section Newsletter, Winter 2018) (Grubman)
• Government Steps Up Fight Against Opioid Epidemic Through Fraud and Abuse Enforcement (ABA Health eSource August 2017) (Grubman)
• Federal Court Interprets Revised Writing Requirements to Stark Law Exceptions (ABA Health eSource Vol. 13 No. 9) (Grubman & Tanner)
• Buyers Beware: The Drug Supply Chain Security Act and False Claims Act (AHLA Fraud & Abuse Newsletter) (Grubman & Robinson)
• The “Advice-of-Counsel” Defense: Cautionary Tales for Counsel in False Claims Act Cases (AHLA Weekly) (Grubman & Robinson)
• Clinical Laboratories Beware: A Summary of the OIG’s Unfavorable Advisory Opinion 16-12 (ABA Health eSource Vol. 16, No. 3) (Grubman & Tanner)
• The Use of Self-Critical Material as Adverse Evidence: Can Privilege Protect Against a Hobson’s Choice? (American Health Lawyers Association Journal – February 2017) (Grubman)
• A Matter of Opinions: The Medicare Hospice Benefit and the Standard of Objective Falsity Under the FCA (AHLA PALS Advisor) (Grubman & Shapiro)
• Something Ventured: The Continued Scrutiny of ASC-Anesthesia Joint Ventures (ABA Health eSource) (Grubman & Shapiro)
• HHS Issues Proposed Rule to Amend Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Regulations (AHLA Weekly) (Grubman)
• Civil Monetary Penalties, Representing Hospitals and Hospital Systems (AHLA) (Grubman)
• Resolving the Split(s): The FCA’s Implied Certification Theory and the Escobar Case (AHLA Fraud & Abuse) (Grubman & Shapiro)
• The Providers Strike Back: The Continued Backlog of Medicare Appeals and the Availability of Injunctive Relief (AHLA Health Care Liability & Litigation) (Grubman & Shapiro)
• Compounding the Problem: The Government Cracks Down on Compounding Pharmacy Fraud and Abuse (ABA Health eSource) (reprinted in Chicago Medicine Magazine)  (Grubman & Shapiro)
• The Increased Privatization of the False Claims Act (State Bar of Georgia, Health Law Developments) (Grubman)
• The New Era of Individual Responsibility in Health Care Fraud and Abuse (AHLA, Executive Summary) (Grubman, Shapiro & Tanner)
• CMS implements important changes to Stark and incident-to regulations (HCCA’s Compliance Today) (Grubman & Shapiro)
• Going Up: The Impending Increase in Health Care Fraud Penalties (AHLA Weekly) (Grubman)
• Unsweet Revenge: Whistleblower Protection Under the False Claims Act (ABA Health Lawyer) (Grubman)
• The 60-Day Rule and the Healthfirst Case (AHLA, Member Briefing) (Grubman)
• Unclear Liability: FCA Knowledge and Regulatory Ambiguity (AHLA Weekly) (Grubman)
• SCOTUS “Splits the Baby” in False Claims Act Decision (AHLA Weekly) (Grubman)
• Testimony on Fighting Health Fraud Tells of Digital Tools (Law 360) (Grubman)
• The False Claims Act: It’s More Than Just Healthcare (Georgia Defense Lawyers Association Law Journal) (Grubman)
• Fighting Back: Asserting Counterclaims Against False Claims Act Relators (ABA Health Lawyer) (Grubman)
• Playing Hot Potato with Overpayments: Healthcare Providers Must Act Quickly to Refund Overpayments or Risk FCA Liability (AHLA Connections) (Grubman)
• Spilling the Beans: When a False Claim Act Defendant’s Actions Trigger the FCA’s Public Disclosure Bar (AHLA, Fraud and Abuse) (Grubman)
• 2015 Top Ten Issues In Health Law – Fraud and Abuse Section (AHLA Connections) (Grubman)
• If the Shoe Doesn’t Fit: Stark’s Self-Referral Prohibition and Medicaid Claims (AHLA Journal of Health & Life Science Law) (Grubman)
• The Worthless Services Theory of FCA Liability: The Fine Line Between FCA Liability and the Federalization of Medical Malpractice (AHLA, Healthcare Liability & Litigation) (Grubman)
• Stark’s Self-Referral Prohibition and Medicaid Claims (Georgia Health Law Developments) (Grubman)
• Here Comes the Sun: How the Impending Data Release Under the Sunshine Act Might Affect False Claims Act Qui Tam Filings (ABA Health eSource) (Grubman)
• CMS Payment Data Website May Stop Some FCA Claims (Law360) (Grubman)
• OIG’s Proposal to Expand Civil Monetary Penalties Law (AHLA Connections) (Grubman)
• OIG’s Proposal to Expand Exclusion Authority (ABA Health eSource) (Grubman)
• False Claims Act Physician Supervision Cases on the Rise (ABA Health Lawyer) (Grubman)
• No End in Sight: False Claims Act Tolling the War on Terror (AHLA Weekly) (Grubman)
• State Entities and the False Claims Act (ABA Health eSource) (Grubman)
• FCA Claimants Closely Watching SCOTUS for Direction on Rule 9(b) (Law360) (Grubman)
• The False Claims Act on Steroids: The Impact of the Stark and Anti-Kickback Laws on Health Care Fraud Complaints (Dalbey)

White Collar Crime:

• The “Yates Era” In Full Force: The DOJ Fully Implements Yates Memo (ABA Criminal Justice Magazine) (Grubman & Shapiro)

General Litigation:

• The Fifth Amendment in Civil Litigation by Anthony L. Cochran, J. D. Dalbey, et al.