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D. Jacques Smith, Stephanie Trunk, Randall A. Brater, Michael F. Dearington, Rebecca W. Foreman, Nadia Patel

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David S. Greenberg

After announcing in December that it would intervene in a qui tam action under the False Claims Act against Sutter Health and Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF), the US Department of Justice filed its complaint-in-intervention in the Northern District of California on March 4, 2019.

D. Jacques Smith, Stephanie Trunk, Randall A. Brater, Michael F. Dearington, Rebecca W. Foreman, Nadia Patel

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Douglas A. Grimm, Hillary M. Stemple

Health Care Partner Douglas Grimm and Associate Hillary Stemple authored an article for the March 2019 edition of Compliance Today titled “Telemedicine: A review of the fraud and abuse landscape.”

D. Jacques Smith, Stephanie Trunk, Randall A. Brater, Michael F. Dearington, Rebecca W. Foreman, Nadia Patel

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D. Jacques Smith, Stephanie Trunk, Randall A. Brater, Michael F. Dearington, Rebecca W. Foreman, Nadia Patel

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Stephanie Trunk

On February 19, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States denied a request from Maryland’s Attorney General to review the decision of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held the state’s drug price gouging law to be unconstitutional.

D. Jacques Smith, Stephanie Trunk, Randall A. Brater, Michael F. Dearington, Rebecca W. Foreman, Nadia Patel

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California is one of a handful of states requiring employers to pay a certain minimum to employees as reporting time, or “show up,” pay. 

Sarah G. Benator, Lowell C. Brown

California hospitals, medical staffs, and medical groups, take note: In addressing an issue that has been debated for years, the California Court of Appeal has concluded that a hospital’s directive to a group in a “closed” department to not schedule a practitioner due to competency issues constitute

D. Jacques Smith, Stephanie Trunk, Randall A. Brater, Michael F. Dearington, Rebecca W. Foreman, Nadia Patel

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Stephanie Trunk

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General has released a proposed rule (the Proposed Rule) that would make significant changes to an often relied upon Anti-Kickback Statute regulatory “safe harbor” – the Discount Safe Harbor – pursuant to which pharmaceutical manufactur

D. Jacques Smith, Stephanie Trunk, Randall A. Brater, Michael F. Dearington, Rebecca W. Foreman, Nadia Patel

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D. Jacques Smith, Stephanie Trunk, Randall A. Brater, Michael F. Dearington, Rebecca W. Foreman, Nadia Patel

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Caroline Turner English, Rebecca W. Foreman

In a long-awaited opinion, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals struck a blow to UnitedHealth Group. Inc.’s (“United”) sweeping overpayment recovery scheme.

D. Jacques Smith, Stephanie Trunk, Randall A. Brater, Michael F. Dearington, Rebecca W. Foreman, Nadia Patel

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D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Michael F. Dearington

On January 7, the US Supreme Court declined to review United States ex rel. Campie v. Gilead Sciences, Inc., 862 F.3d 890 (9th Cir. 2017), leaving in place a plaintiff-friendly decision by the Ninth Circuit regarding the False Claims Act’s materiality requirement.

D. Jacques Smith, Stephanie Trunk, Randall A. Brater, David S. Greenberg, Michael F. Dearington, Rebecca W. Foreman, Nadia Patel

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Stephanie Trunk

The end of 2018 saw good news for hospitals affected by the lowered Medicare Part B reimbursement rates for certain outpatient drugs that went into effect January 1, 2018.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Michael F. Dearington

The Department of Justice recently published its annual False Claims Act (FCA) recoveries statistics for Fiscal Year 2018, reporting nearly $2.9 billion in FCA settlements and judgments in FY 2018.

Henry Morris, Jr.

When it comes to Fair Labor Standards Act compliance, a recent Department of Labor opinion letter reminds employers that they must sweat the details.

D. Jacques Smith, Stephanie Trunk, Randall A. Brater, David S. Greenberg, Michael F. Dearington, Rebecca W. Foreman, Nadia Patel

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Sarah G. Benator

In Los Angeles alone, the LA City Attorney’s Office has in recent years initiated numerous lawsuits against hospitals and nursing facilities for homeless patient “dumping” – a practice generally described as discharging homeless persons without regard to their safety or ability to find shelter.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Stephanie Trunk, David S. Greenberg, Michael F. Dearington, Rebecca W. Foreman, Nadia Patel

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Lowell C. Brown, Debra Albin-Riley, Douglas A. Grimm, Thomas E. Jeffry, Jr., D. Jacques Smith, Sarah G. Benator

We are very pleased to announce that our Health Care attorneys will be hosting two Medical Staff Leaders and the Law Conferences in 2019.