April 22, 2024
The Office of Management and Budget published the Final Rule to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (“Uniform Guidance”), as codified at 2 C.F.R. Part 200 [...]
April 15, 2024
DOJ Successes Spark Legislation Aimed at Further Pursuing Recovery of Misused Pandemic-Related Funds
Pandemic-related fraud and false claims remain a high priority for the Department of Justice (DOJ). Despite low recoveries in federal fiscal year 2023 in the area of COVID-19 related fraud, DOJ is [...]
April 5, 2024
On April 4, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) released a substantial update to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (“Uniform Guidance”), as codified [...]
April 4, 2024
A rarely-used – but important – False Claims Act (FCA) provision recently turned the typical attorneys’ fees repayment award on its head, when a Mississippi federal judge used the statutory authority to [...]
February 29, 2024
Florida-based non-profit cancer treatment and research center H. Lee Moffitt (Moffitt) agreed to pay $19,564,743 to resolve its self-disclosure related to improper claims for patient care items and services provided during research [...]
February 27, 2024
The federal False Claims Act (FCA) is one of the government’s strongest enforcement tools, annually resulting in billions of dollars clawed back to the United States as a result of the statute’s [...]
February 22, 2024
The United States Office of Research Integrity (ORI) oversees and directs Public Health Service (PHS) research integrity activities on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The PHS [...]
June 2, 2023
In a unanimous opinion issued Thursday, June 1, the U.S. Supreme Court retained the current “scienter” or “knowledge standard” governing False Claims Act (“FCA”) cases, and, in doing so, offered guidance to [...]
March 27, 2020
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 [...]
March 9, 2020
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 [...]