May 24, 2021 | COVID-19 Related Law
On May 17, 2021, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland released a memo announcing the establishment of a COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force (“COVID-19 Task Force”). Continuing the government’s collaboration with interagency partners, the COVID-19 Task Force invited...
May 24, 2021 | SEC Investigations
On May 18, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R.2655, the Insider Trading Prohibition Act. If passed by the Senate, the legislation would be the first dedicated legislation to combat insider trading. For decades, the Department of Justice and Securities and...
May 14, 2021 | SEC Investigations
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced that it had awarded $22 million to two whistleblowers, with one of those individuals receiving an $18 million award. The two individuals provided the SEC with information concerning the same...
May 11, 2021 | Health Care
On April 27, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a new proposed rule that, along with increasing hospital payments, proposes changes to the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program (formerly known as the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive...