With lots of money at play, it’s not hard to see why the government is motivated to investigate and prosecute in order to obtain huge fines and the benefit of the forfeiture millions of dollars.
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Criminal and, at least, serious civil, liability lurks in many neat neighborhoods. Create your own neighborhood watch to make sure that it’s not lurking behind your medical group’s otherwise metaphorical neat lawn. Podcast: Play in new window | Download
It was a neighborhood like many others. Neat, but not too neat front yards. Newspapers brought in by 8:00 a.m. and maybe by 10:00 a.m. on weekends. And, all was within the bounds of normal, giving, of course, wide birth to the meaning of the word, for this is nonfiction, not fiction. But with one […]
Oh what a tangled web they weave; multiple professionals caught up marketing an ineffective medicine in return for disguised kickbacks.
This past week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of ten additional defendants – doctors, pharmacy owners, and marketers – charged in connection with an alleged $100 million compounded pain and scar cream scam on TriCare. The ten join two other defendants charged in the same scheme earlier this year. The government alleges […]
