Mar 29, 2021 | Employment Law
Physician non-compete covenants can be one of the most contentious and highly negotiated points in a transaction, and rightfully so. Of all the terms in a physician employment agreement or a purchase agreement tied to the sale of a physician’s business, the...
Mar 26, 2021 | False Claims Act, Government Investigations, Health Care
In an address at the Federal Bar Association’s Qui Tam Conference, Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton discussed the DOJ Civil Division’s current False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement priorities. Although not the full universe of cases the that the DOJ will...
Mar 26, 2021 | General, Government Investigations
Over the past several years, the laws governing medical and recreational use of cannabis have gone through a significant transformation. Since 2012, fifteen states and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational use of marijuana. Still, marijuana remains...
Mar 23, 2021 | False Claims Act
On March 19, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) published its annual report detailing the Medicaid Fraud Control Units (“MFCUs”) case outcomes. According to the report, MFCUs recovered $1 billion from criminal...
Mar 23, 2021 | White Collar Crime
The real estate industry is one of the sectors of the U.S. economy that is most susceptible to fraud. The desire to own a home is a defining characteristic of the American public. Occasionally, that desire combined with vanity and fear of missing out lead potential...
Mar 22, 2021 | Health Care
On Tuesday, March 16, 2021, Judge Barker in the Southern District of Indiana issued a preliminary injunction halting the progress on a newly established 340B Administrative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Program. The new ADR Program is a tool that many hospitals, community...
Mar 16, 2021 | White Collar Crime
The Department of Justice (DOJ), Civil Division announced in a March 8, 2021 press release that it had charged four individuals who allegedly falsified clinical trial data. The charges include conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering,...
Mar 16, 2021 | False Claims Act
On Friday, March 12, 2021, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in the case of United States of America, ex. rel. Michele Yates v. Pinellas Hematology & Oncology, P.A., where the defendant argued that the judgment entered against it in a...
Mar 15, 2021 | Healthcare Transactions
On March 1, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ceased its efforts to block a $599 million health system merger in Philadelphia after losing its bid in court to stop the deal between Jefferson Health (Jefferson) and Albert Einstein Healthcare Network (Einstein). ...
