Rosie Dawn Griffin

Winter is coming.  No, it’s not the motto of House Stark of Westeros, it’s Jane Winter—a former hospital Care Management Director turned whistleblower—and her qui tam action, plowing new ground on the falsity of clinical judgments in the Ninth Circuit. The decision, Winter ex rel. United States v. Gardens Reg’l…

On March 3, 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) launched a National Nursing Home Initiative to “coordinate and enhance civil and criminal efforts to pursue nursing homes and long-term care facilities that provide grossly substandard care to their residents.”  The DOJ’s new initiative adds to its extensive efforts to combat…

On Presidents’ Day, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reminded us that Lincoln’s Law still packs quite the punch.  In a decision issued on Monday, the Fifth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the United States against BestCare Laboratory Services, L.L.C. (“BestCare”) and its CEO in the amount of…

On February 7, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the defendant hospital in a False Claims Act (“FCA”) case premised on falsified data.  The case—United States, ex rel. Janssen v. Lawrence Memorial Hosp., 2020 BL 44705 (10th Cir. Feb. 07, 2020)— involved…