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In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has permitted the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to withhold millions in Title X funding from Oklahoma over the state’s refusal to comply [...]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently released its third ransomware-related settlement agreement in less than a year. Below we summarize each of the [...]

A Recent Settlement, and DOJ Intervention in an Ongoing Case, Highlight Cybersecurity as a False Claims Act Enforcement Priority The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) increasingly-active Civil Cyber Fraud Initiative has made [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

One of the key provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the Breach Notification Rule, which requires covered entities and business associates to notify affected individuals, the Department [...]

Over the past several months oversight of the COVID-19 Uninsured Program (UIP) by both the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has ramped up. [...]

Feldesman Leifer LLP (Feldesman) is pleased to announce that Rosie Dawn Griffin and Mindy B. Pava have been promoted from Counsel to Partner effective January 1, 2024. "We are proud to welcome [...]