Dec 4, 2023 | Health Care Fraud
According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), on October 11, Mark Wright, the former CEO of a Utah-based medical device company, pleaded guilty in federal court to misdemeanor charges related to the introduction of misbranded and unapproved medical devices into...
Dec 4, 2023 | Government Investigations, Health Care Fraud
Telemedicine remains on the government’s list of enforcement priorities. The DOJ announced that nurse practitioner Daphne Jenkins pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud for her role in a $7.8 million telemedicine scheme. CG attorneys...
Nov 20, 2023 | False Claims Act
Chilivis Grubman attorneys often remind readers that the False Claims Act (FCA) is not limited to any single industry. Any company or individual submitting claims for payment to the federal government faces the threat of FCA liability if those claims turn out to be...
Nov 20, 2023 | Health Care Fraud
Shiva Akula, the owner and operator of Canon Healthcare, LLC, was convicted by a Louisiana jury of 23 counts of health care fraud. The jury found that Akula defrauded Medicare by overbilling and manipulating various Common Procedural Terminology (“CPT”) codes....
Nov 7, 2023 | Government Contract
On November 2, 2023, the Georgia Court of Appeals reversed a lower Georgia court, which had held that edible products containing delta-8 THC or delta-10 THC were controlled substances under state law. Although the Court of Appeals decision is not binding precedent,...
