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...
Jan 6, 2026 | Health Care, Medicare and Medicaid
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) just implemented significant changes to the way Medicare reimburses providers for skin substitutes. The changes were triggered in part by a September 2025 report by the Department of Health & Human Services’...
Dec 11, 2025 | Criminal Matters, False Claims Act, Health Care, Health Care Fraud, Medicare and Medicaid
On December 10, 2025, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Hampshire announced that telehealth company LifeWorks Counseling Associates and its owner Dr. David Ferruolo had agreed to pay $300,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False...
Nov 24, 2025 | False Claims Act, Health Care, Health Care Fraud, Medicare and Medicaid
On November 21, 2025, the DOJ announced that a national wound care practice and its owner had agreed to pay $45 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by knowingly causing the submission of false or improper claims to the Medicare...
Nov 18, 2025 | False Claims Act, Fraud Investigations, Health Care, Health Care Fraud, Medicare and Medicaid
On November 17, 2025, the DOJ announced that knee implant manufacturer Aesculap agreed to pay $38.5 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act (FCA) that it sold a knee-replacement device (the VEGA System Knee System) which it alleged the company knew...
Nov 18, 2025 | False Claims Act, Health Care, Health Care Fraud
On November 17, 2025, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that CVS Pharmacy had agreed to pay $18,282,280 to resolve allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act (FCA) and the California’s False Claims Act by billing the...
