Mar 2, 2026 | False Claims Act, Health Care, Health Care Fraud, Medicare and Medicaid
On February 27, 2026, the Department of Justice announced that Atlanta Gastroenterology Associates (AGA) had agreed to pay $4.75 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by receiving kickbacks from a pathology lab and performing...
Feb 26, 2026 | False Claims Act, Fraud Investigations, Health Care, Health Care Fraud, Healthcare Transactions
On Tuesday February 24, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that an Arizona surgical hospital–Southwest Orthopedic and Spine Hospital, doing business as OASIS Hospital–as well as United Surgical Partners International (USPI) and a jointly-owned...
Feb 17, 2026 | Land Use Law, Land Zoning Law
According to Urbanize Atlanta, downtown Atlanta may soon see a major shift in its healthcare landscape. Since the closure of Atlanta Medical Center three years ago, Grady Memorial Hospital has remained the primary provider serving the urban core—raising concerns about...
Feb 9, 2026 | Trademark Enforcement, Trademark Protection
In Illinois Tamale Co., Inc. v. LC Trademarks, Inc., et al., 24-3317, 2026 WL 125543 (7th Cir. Jan. 16, 2026), Chicago-based Illinois Tamale Company, Inc. (“Illinois Tamale”) brought a trademark infringement action in the Northern District of Illinois against Little...
Jan 28, 2026 | Administrative Law, Civil Rights
Claims of excessive force by federal immigration agents raise an immediate and difficult question: who can be sued? Individual agents often assert qualified immunity, while constitutional claims under Bivens have been sharply limited by the Supreme Court. In many...
Jan 19, 2026 | Civil Rights
After an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this month, Vice President J.D. Vance gave a press conference during which he claimed that the officer has “absolute immunity.” Around the same time, the Department of Homeland...
Jan 18, 2026 | False Claims Act, federal investigations, Fraud Investigations, Health Care, Health Care Fraud
Last Friday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released its annual False Claims Act report, announcing that FCA settlements and judgments had exceeded $6.8B in fiscal year 2025 (ending 9/30/25), and noting that the total is “the highest in a single year in the...
Jan 15, 2026 | False Claims Act, Fraud Investigations, Health Care, Health Care Fraud, Medicare and Medicaid
On January 14, 2026, the Department of Justice announced that several affiliates of Kaiser Permanente agreed to pay $556 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) “by submitting invalid diagnosis codes for their Medicare...
Jan 13, 2026 | Fraud Investigations, Health Care, Health Care Fraud, Medicare and Medicaid
As we have written about several times previously, billing Medicare for skin substitutes used in wound care has come under significant scrutiny by various federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, HHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG), and CMS and...
Jan 8, 2026 | False Claims Act, Health Care, Health Care Fraud, Medicare and Medicaid, White Collar Crime
On January 7, 2026, the Department of Justice announced that South Carolina clinical laboratory Labtech Diagnostics, and its founder and CEO had agreed to pay at least $6.8 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) and various other...
