As we previously reported here, record numbers of cases are being filed by “whistleblowers” under the FCA—approximately 1,300 qui tam suits last year alone. This morning, Brenna Jenny, the Deputy […]
A divided panel of the Fourth Circuit reversed the dismissal of a qui tam FCA suit alleging that the defendant pharmaceutical company underpaid Medicaid rebates by misreporting “best price” under […]
The Second Circuit affirmed dismissal of an FCA qui tam based on allegedly faulty medical devices, an area marked for particular FCA scrutiny by the DOJ-HHS FCA Working Group, as […]
During her keynote speech at the Federal Bar Association’s Qui Tam Conference, Brenna Jenny, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Commercial Litigation Branch, stated that robust FCA enforcement is “the […]
Last week, DOJ released its annual report detailing FCA recoveries and new cases, which can be found here. In the press release, accessible here, DOJ touts two records in fiscal […]
Earlier this week, the First Circuit in OMNI Healthcare held that “in FCA cases alleging Medicare fraud based on laboratory testing, generally a laboratory can rely on a doctor’s order […]