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A Civil Investigative Demand Issued to You or Your Medical Practice is Serious Business. Understand Your Level of Risk Before Responding to the Government’s Investigation

(September 17, 2019): The False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733) is the primary civil enforcement tool relied on by the Federal government. It has a long and storied history, going back all the way to the Civil War.[1] Prior to 1986, the statute was only infrequently utilized by law enforcement. That changed with the […]

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Record FCA Recoveries Were Collected by the Government in 2012

(February 12, 2013): The civil False Claims Act is the primary civil enforcement tool used by the U.S. Department of Justice. As discussed below, the False Claims Act is an extraordinarily useful statute for government prosecutors, both in terms of ease of use and in terms of the damages which may be recovered by the

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Top Ten Health Care Compliance Risks for 2011

(December 31, 2010): In case you missed it, Congress, President Obama and the healthcare regulators had a banner year with respect to regulatory activism in 2010. Over the next several weeks we will be releasing a series of articles on our website addressing the compliance risk areas facing your organise dramatic changes and the compliance

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