It's not just new laws, regulations or even court cases. Trends in health care fraud enforcement are sometimes driven by changes in prosecution policies, including those that aren't made public. Such … [Read more...]
DOJ
Enforcement Trends: New DOJ Policy Targeting Whistleblowers with Weak Cases May Make Life Easier for Labs
March 4, 2019
COMPLIANCE
Enforcement Trends: After 2017 Decline, False Claims Act Healthcare Recoveries Bounce Back
January 21, 2019
Although the False Claims Act (FCA) remains a federal enforcement cash cow, the growth rate has fallen off in recent years, at least in the healthcare sector. But that short-term trend could be in … [Read more...]
EXPOSED THERANOS FRAUD
Investigative Journalist Wins Kellison Award
October 25, 2018
John Carreyrou, the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist who exposed Theranos as a fraud, was presented with the Kellison & Company Distinguished Service Award at Lab Institute today. Pictured … [Read more...]
FALSE CLAIMS
Dissolution: The Final Act of the Theranos Tragedy
September 26, 2018
Tragedy was a genre invented by the ancient Greeks to portray the fall of not just ordinary but great individuals. And while "Theranos" is not actually a Greek word (it's actually an amalgamation of … [Read more...]
DOJ
Industry Buzz: Criminal Charges May Spell the End for Theranos
August 1, 2018
Four years ago, Theranos was a $10 billion company poised to turn a breakthrough blood testing technology into a diagnostics dynamo to the tune of $70 billion in annual sales. Today, the company and … [Read more...]
COMPLIANCE
Enforcement Trends: New Fraud Takedown Focuses on Opioid Drugs & Sophisticated Financial Schemes
July 13, 2018
The 2016 health care fraud takedown was the biggest in history; the 2017 version surpassed it; and the June 2018 reprise nearly doubled the 2017 effort, at least in terms of the false claims dollars … [Read more...]
DOJ
Criminal Charges May Spell the End for Theranos
July 13, 2018
Four years ago, Theranos was a $10 billion company poised to turn a breakthrough blood testing technology into a diagnostics dynamo to the tune of $70 billion in annual sales. Today, the company … [Read more...]
HEALTH CARE REFORM
ACA: DOJ Won’t Defend Individual Mandate in Court—But 16+ States Will
June 18, 2018
One of the DOJ's principal roles is to defend the federal laws in court cases challenging their constitutionality. But the agency has made it known that it will not be doing that in a lawsuit brought … [Read more...]
ENFORCEMENT
Case of the Month: $33.2 Million Alere Settlement Sends Warning Shot Across Bow of LDT & DX Device Makers
April 23, 2018
One of the reasons Abbott Laboratories got cold feet about consummating the $5.3 billion Alere acquisition was concern over the legal proceedings against the target firm. Now one of those cases … [Read more...]
FALSE CLAIMS
Enforcement Trends: Why Fending Off Whistleblowers Might Have Just Gotten Easier
March 20, 2018
Because government enforcers cannot be everywhere at once, the qui tam whistleblower lawsuit was invented. The result has been a proliferation of fraud cases against not just labs and health care … [Read more...]
