False Claims Act

Twelve-Year Litigation Put to Bed The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) paid $38 million to settle a whistleblower-initiated—aka “qui tam”—False Claims Act (FCA) suit earlier this month, ending more than a [...]

As the Department of Justice (DOJ) made clear when it announced its False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement priorities for 2024 earlier this year, it intends to actively investigate and seek recoveries for [...]

For a nuclear plant contractor, the submission of false timekeeping entries over a six-year period proved to be far more serious than a simple documentation issue. On Tuesday April 23, the U.S. [...]

Feldesman Partners Rosie Dawn Griffin and Mindy B. Pava will present during the Society of Research Administrators International (SRAI) Virtual Research Administration Conference this Spring.   Their session, “Year 2024 Expected Enforcement Priorities: [...]

The Office of Management and Budget published the Final Rule to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (“Uniform Guidance”), as codified at 2 C.F.R. Part 200 [...]

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 [...]

On April 4, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) released a substantial update to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (“Uniform Guidance”), as codified [...]

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 [...]