Apr 14, 2021 | False Claims Act
On April 8, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a press release announcing a $22.5 million settlement with South Carolina’s largest urgent care provider – Doctors Care, P.A. (d/b/a/ “Doctors Care”) – and its management company, UCI Medical Affiliates of South...
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 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 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 5, 2021 | False Claims Act
On February 22, 2021, the United States Supreme Court declined to resolve a circuit split regarding the definition of “falsity” in False Claims Act (“FCA”) cases. In November 2020, CG attorneys wrote about the United States Supreme Court potentially hearing the cases...
Mar 4, 2021 | False Claims Act
A young woman in Austin, Texas sends a letter home to her mother in the U.K. A man mails a package to his family in Colombia. A small business owner ships a product to an online customer in South Korea. They all used the United States Postal Service (“USPS”) to...
