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When most of us hear “False Claims Act,” we usually think of the Federal False Claims Act (FCA).

1. Miami-Based Physician Charged for Role in Pain Pill Diversion and Medicare Fraud Scheme -

Daniel Levinson, Inspector General of HHS, was a keynote speaker on Monday, March 27th at the HCCA’s Compliance Institute. Every year most attendees eagerly listen to what he has to say. Among other things, he spoke of what he termed “Compliance 2.0.”

Nick Merkin, CEO of Compliagent, chatted with me from his home in sunny California about compliance from an attorney’s perspective. Merkin, a lawyer by training, spent the first ten years of his career in healthcare law, primarily in litigation defense. So he knows a thing or two about how to keep...

1. Houston-Area Registered Nurse Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud Medicare of More than $5 Million:

At the end of 2016 I posted a blog about the unsealing of an indictment of 21 individuals allegedly involved in a $40 million bribe and kickback scheme involving Forest Park Medical Center Dallas (FPMC).

1. California Clinic Owner Sentenced to 63 Months in Prison for Role in Occupational Therapy Fraud Scheme -

Cell phones, cell phones, we love them and love to hate them.