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As compliance professionals, staying on top of recent enforcement actions by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) can be a challenge – but we’re here to help. Understanding recent enforcement actions is a crucial way to guide compliance programs, risk assessments, education efforts, and auditing...

March 2023 was an important month for compliance programs. During this time, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) updated their guidance document titled “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs.”¹

In October of 2022, a healthcare company pleaded guilty to engaging with a competitor to allocate employee nurses and fix the wages of those nurses. The company will pay over $130,000 as part of its sentence.

If you’ve been around the compliance block a time or two, you’ve heard various messages from enforcement agencies about their intentions to hold individuals accountable for their actions related to alleged corporate crime. It makes sense when you stop to think about it. Organizations don’t make...

Staying on top of the latest enforcement actions is not easy – that's why we’re rounding up recent U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) enforcement actions for you.

What would the state of healthcare in this country look like without laboratory services?

When the OIG changed their approach to updating their Work Plan, from an annual update, to regular monthly updates

At this year’s HCCA’s annual Compliance Institute (CI), their 25th anniversary, I had the opportunity to hear from a number of different government enforcement agencies. Over the course of the four-day virtual conference, I sat through multiple sessions featuring speakers from the OIG, DOJ, and OCR.