Jan 25, 2022 | Cyber Law, HIPAA
The HIPAA Journal, a well-known website that provides broad coverage of HIPAA compliance and news, recently released its December 2021 Healthcare Data Breach Report. The Data Breach Report analyzes data breach statistics provided by HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR)...
Jan 25, 2022 | Government Investigations
In September 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the conviction of Mark Daniel Allen. According to the press release, Mr. Allen was a nurse practitioner and owner of Volunteer Family Medical, a clinic in Manchester, Tennessee. According to court...
Jan 19, 2022 | False Claims Act, White Collar Crime
Student loans and the impact they have on Americans and the economy have been ever-present in the news for years. Many consider the current student loan system in place in the U.S. university system to be a crisis – one that threatens the economy and American...
Jan 19, 2022 | False Claims Act
Laboratories and the use of patient brokers/recruiters have and continue to be scrutinized by the government. There are no indications that the government’s enforcement efforts will subside. In April 2021, Chilivis Grubman attorneys discussed a patient recruiter...
Jan 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
The 2022 election season is upon us! If you are a candidate or potential candidate, a political action committee or campaign committee, a political enthusiast or simply a voter, you will want to note many if not all of the dates outlined below. Election dates are...
Jan 18, 2022 | Government Affairs
Some establishments located in the City of Atlanta had difficulty renewing their alcohol licenses before the annual deadline of December 31, 2021. To address this problem, on January 10, 2022, City of Atlanta Councilmember Michael Julian Bond introduced legislation...
Jan 12, 2022 | Business Litigation
Attorneys Jeremy Berry and Andrew Mason recently obtained a significant court victory for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (“MARTA”) in defense of a multi-million dollar contract award for Transit and Digital Advertising. MARTA issued a Request for...
Jan 11, 2022 | SEC Investigations
On January 6, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had filed charges against an Australian businessman, Craig Sproule, and his two companies, Crowd Machine, Inc. and Metavine, Inc., alleging that they had made materially false and misleading...
Jan 11, 2022 | White Collar Crime
On January 5, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of Dr. Anita L. Jackson. The indictment primarily relates to the provision of balloon sinuplasty. According to Johns Hopkins, balloon sinuplasty is a minimally invasive treatment for chronic...
Jan 5, 2022 | Fraud Investigations, White Collar Crime
In early December 2021, CG attorneys wrote about a Georgia man sentenced to two years in prison for CARES Act Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan fraud. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia prosecuted the case. Recently, the DOJ...
