Jan 17, 2020 | Health Care
On January 15, 2020, a federal jury found Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada, a Texas rheumatologist, guilty for his participation in a $325 million health care fraud scheme. Dr. Zamora-Quezada was indicted on May 9, 2018, for, amongst other crimes, health care fraud,...
Jan 17, 2020 | Employment Law
In January 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) settled a 2016 lawsuit against Jackson National Life Insurance Company, Jackson National Life Distributors, LLC, and Jackson National Life Insurance Company of New York (collectively,...
Jan 11, 2020 | Health Care
On January 9, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it had recovered over $3 billion from False Claims Act cases in fiscal year 2019. Nearly 75% of that was the result of qui tam whistleblower lawsuits. According to the DOJ, of the total recovery,...
Nov 26, 2019 | Employment Law
Under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), an employer must reasonably accommodate a known disability if the accommodation would not impose an undue hardship on the employer’s business. To succeed in an ADA-based lawsuit, the plaintiff...
Nov 26, 2019 | White Collar Crime
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have published a memorandum of understanding related to violations by Federal Housing Administration (FHA) lenders. Citing a shared goal of addressing FHA program requirements and...
Nov 26, 2019 | Health Care
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued its final rule requiring hospitals to publish prices for services beginning in 2021. Under the rule, hospitals must disclose prices in a machine-readable format and on a searchable platform. The...
Nov 26, 2019 | Cyber Law, HIPAA
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) imposed civil monetary penalties (CMP) of $3 million and $1.6 million for HIPAA violations in the first half of November. $3 million CMP: Failure to Encrypt Devices In 2010, the University of...
Oct 23, 2019 | Health Care
Earlier this month, both the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG), and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued proposed rules that contain major and significant changes to the Anti-Kickback statute (AKS), the...
