Jan 17, 2023 | False Claims Act, Government Investigations
Last month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Advanced Bionics LLC, a California-based manufacturer of cochlear implant system devices, had agreed to pay more than $12 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act (FCA) when it...
Jan 17, 2023 | False Claims Act
On January 9, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that a federal judge sentenced Florida doctor, Michael Ligotti, to 20 years in prison for his role in a multi-year healthcare fraud scheme that took place from 2011 to 2020. Dr. Ligotti also surrendered his...
Jan 12, 2023 | Government Affairs, Government Investigations
For several years now, Georgia has been moving toward permitting medical cannabis sales in Georgia. In 2015, Haleigh’s Hope Act was signed into law, which allowed possession by qualifying patients of low THC oil, a form of medical cannabis, but notably the Act did...
Jan 10, 2023 | Government Affairs
In 2018, the federal government enacted the 2018 Farm Bill, which legalized hemp and hemp derivatives, including CBD. The Farm Bill, however, did not regulate CBD and instead acknowledged that the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) could regulate those products...
Jan 10, 2023 | False Claims Act, Health Care Fraud
The DOJ announced that John Grisham, Rob Wilburn, and Richard Speights were charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and to pay and receive health care kickbacks and bribes. The Defendants, and their co-conspirators, allegedly submitted at least $107...
Jan 6, 2023 | False Claims Act
The DOJ just announced that medical device companies Jet Medical Inc. (Jet), Medical Components Inc. (MedComp), and Martech Medical Products Inc. (Martech) agreed to pay $545,133 to settle allegations of violating the False Claims Act (FCA) by distributing misbranded...
Jan 4, 2023 | Cyber Law, Data Breach
On December 14, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), the federal agency that manages the Medicare program, posted a press release related to a data breach suffered by a CMS subcontractor. According to the notice, on October 8, 2022, a CMS...
Dec 30, 2022 | Health Care, Medicare and Medicaid
In 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its then-long-awaited final rule implementing and interpreting the “60-day” overpayment rule, which was signed into law by President Obama four years prior as part of the Affordable Care Act. ...
Dec 21, 2022 | White Collar Crime
On December 20, the Department of Justice announced BioTelemetry Inc. and its subsidiary CardioNet LLC (collectively “BioTelemetry”) have agreed to pay $44,875,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by “knowingly submitting claims to...
