Feb 18, 2021 | COVID-19 Related Law
Last year, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Georgia General Assembly passed legislation protecting healthcare providers and businesses in the state from lawsuits by customers or employees who blame them for contracting COVID-19. (Read our previous alert...
Feb 17, 2021 | COVID-19 Related Law, Fraud Investigations, Government Investigations, Medicare and Medicaid, White Collar Crime
On February 11, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced the first criminal charges for the misappropriation of funds designated for medical providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the press release, Ms. Amina Abbas owned a home health...
Feb 16, 2021 | False Claims Act
In a decision last month, the Eleventh Circuit brought clarity to one of the requirements an employee must fulfill in order to bring a retaliation claim under the False Claims Act (“FCA”). Specifically, the court found that simply because an employee sincerely...
Feb 12, 2021 | False Claims Act, Government Investigations, Health Care
The Department of Justice recently announced that Athenahealth, Inc. (Athena), an electronic health record (“EHR”) vendor, has agreed to pay $18.25 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act (“FCA”). Athena allegedly implemented various marketing...
