July 2021
Healthcare Fraud Developments
Pratt's Government Contracting Law Report
Attorneys William Gould, Eliot Burriss, Nathan Adams, Gemma Galeoto, Jeffrey Anderson, David Haller and Andrew Namkung co-authored an article for Pratt's Government Contracting Law Report analyzing recent enforcement developments in the healthcare industry. Their article covers the following topics:
- a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that reversed a healthcare fraud conviction
- a $111 million jury verdict against two blood testing labs and their sales consultants for violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act
- a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that the U.S. government did not present sufficient evidence to find that a defendant acted "willfully" as required to support a conviction in a kickback case
- a favorable advisory opinion from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General on an arrangement through which a pharmaceutical manufacturer offers free drugs to qualifying patients