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Jan 242024

Potential Liability of Investors in the Healthcare Industry Heightens as Hospital Investors Enter into Novel Settlement

Overpayments, Private Equity, Settlement

Jaime L.M. Jones, Jon S. Zucker and Lauren McBride

A recent False Claims Act settlement between the Department of Justice, a New Jersey hospital, and the hospital’s investors also included a novel Federal Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) settlement with the investors, highlighting the government’s continued efforts to pursue investors in the healthcare industry.

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Jun 202023

Qui Tam Alleges Hospital Fraud Relating to Provider Relief Fund “High Impact” Payment

COVID-19, Health Care Providers, Overpayments, Reverse False Claims

Jaime L.M. Jones, Brenna E. Jenny and Francesca R. Ozinal

Earlier this month, a federal court unsealed a qui tam complaint against several New Jersey hospitals, management services organizations, and the hospitals’ Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer for allegedly refusing to return CARES Act Provider Relief Fund (“PRF”) money for which the hospitals knew they were not eligible, and for allegedly using PRF money for impermissible purposes. See United States ex rel. Singh v. Hudson Hospital OPCO, LLC, No 21-cv-19788 (D.N.J. Nov. 5, 2021). This case is noteworthy because it is one of the first unsealed qui tam complaints raising allegations about ineligibility for, and misuse of, PRF payments.

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