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The Justice Department continues to pile up healthcare enforcement actions -- false claims, anti-kickback, and fraud. DOJ is on its way to a record year. In a recent enforcement action, Modernizing Medicine ("ModMed"), an electronic health record ("EHR") vendor, agreed to pay $45 million for AKS
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When it comes to the healthcare sector, the Justice Department and the HHS-Office of Inspector General have no shortage of investigations and targets for prosecution. The more resources made available to DOJ and HHS-OIG, the more money made for the federal government from medical care fraud. It is
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False Claims Act prosecutions continue against healthcare executives, physicians and professionals. Last year, DOJ recovered over $5.6 billion in FCA enforcement. DOJ expects total recoveries to increase in 2022. Over 95 percent of False Claims Act prosecutions involved healthcare fraud and kickbacks. Two Doctors and Eight Others Indicted for
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Akron General Health Systems, a regional hospital system based in Akron, Ohio agreed to pay $21.25 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that it maintained improper relationships with referring physicians, resulting in the submission of false claims to the Medicare program. Akron General was acquired in