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You want to improve your compliance program but just don’t have the time for a total overhaul at the moment. Well, have no fear, because there are a few small tweaks you can make that can have a huge impact on your program. And the good news is that it’s easier than you think.

1. Three Companies and Their Executives Pay $19.5 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Pertaining to Rehabilitation Therapy and Hospice Services

The DOJ just announced its biggest healthcare enforcement action in history. Compliance personnel will definitely want to know the details since over 100 physicians, nurses or other clinicians were individually indicted.

1. Justice Department reaches first settlement with opioid manufacturer - “The Justice Department and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals reached a $35 million settlement Tuesday to resolve allegations that the company failed to report signs that large quantities of its highly addictive oxycodone pills...

On July 13, 2017, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the largest healthcare fraud takedown in history.

“…let me be clear: healthcare fraud is a priority for the Department of Justice,” is how Kenneth Blanco, acting Assistant Attorney General of the DOJ’s Criminal Division, began his speech on May 18, 2017, at the Institute on Health Care Fraud of the American Bar Association.

1. Kentucky doctor sentenced in Medicaid fraud case: Big fraud in Kentucky. “A Kentucky doctor convicted of Medicaid fraud has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $10,000 in restitution.

In early February of this year, I wrote an eBrief predicting the future of compliance under the new Presidential administration. My guess was that regulatory burdens would decrease.