May 21, 2025
On Monday, May 19, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a memorandum announcing the launch of a new “Civil Rights Fraud Initiative,” aimed at investigating and pursuing claims under the False Claims [...]
May 15, 2025
Key Challenges Still Loom for Covered Entities On Monday, May 12, the White House issued an Executive Order (EO) aimed at addressing prescription drug prices. The EO opens with a remarkable [...]
April 25, 2025
OCR’s New Security Risk Analysis Initiative Results in Seven Enforcement Actions in First Six Months
In the fall of 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the first enforcement action in its “Risk Analysis Initiative.” Since then, a [...]
April 1, 2025
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” – quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson and John Philpot Curran Over the past two years, nearly three dozen states have considered legislation requiring drug manufacturers [...]
March 10, 2025
The torrent of executive orders, policy announcements, and lawsuits during the first weeks of the Trump administration have created substantial uncertainty for community health centers (CHCs) and other non-profit organizations as they [...]
March 5, 2025
The Trump administration announced various executive orders and actions, including attempts to eliminate, pause and limit grant funding that impacted multiple sectors, including education, healthcare, and social services. In the face of [...]
February 8, 2025
This article was updated on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, at 10:50 a.m. CAP Purports to Apply to All Current and Future NIH Grants The Trump Administration’s recent efforts to apply stricter controls [...]
January 27, 2025
As a new Congress and Administration begin a dizzying series of initiatives, health centers and others participating in the federal 340B drug discount statute understandably crave predictions regarding 340B’s future. Not only [...]
January 22, 2025
In a brief farewell message from the Biden Administration, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reported more than $2.9 billion in federal False Claims Act (FCA) settlements and judgments during fiscal year [...]
January 8, 2025
New Administrative False Claims Act, Buried within the NDAA, Gives Agencies Heightened Authority to Pursue False Claims and Statements Enforcement of civil fraud at the agency level received an under-the-radar boost at [...]