Healthcare Fraud Defense
Federal and state investigations, False Claims Act defense, and criminal healthcare fraud cases.
Impaired Practitioner Programs: Terms and Tradeoffs
What monitoring agreements actually require, why five years is the standard term, and the tradeoffs behind choosing an alternative…
The FCA Statute of Limitations and the Tolling Fight
The False Claims Act runs on two limitations clocks. Cochise Consultancy settled which one controls when the government declines t…
Pretrial Diversion for First-Time Healthcare Offenders
Pretrial diversion can dismiss a federal healthcare fraud charge, but state licensing boards often treat the agreement itself as r…
Proffer Sessions in Healthcare Fraud Cases
A proffer session lets a physician give investigators an account under a proffer agreement, but the protection it provides is narr…
Structuring an FCA Settlement
How damages allocation, release scope, CIA terms, and payment structure interact once a False Claims Act matter reaches the settle…
Criminal Charges and Your Professional License
Self-reporting duties to state boards, interim suspension standards, and how a license case runs beside a pending criminal charge,…
Successor Liability for False Claims in an Acquisition
Whether an acquirer inherits a target's False Claims Act exposure turns on deal structure, diligence, and the exceptions to succes…
Continuing Education and Licensure Audit Findings
State boards audit CE compliance by random sample. A documentation gap can mean a fine, a cure period, or formal board discipline.
Statistical Sampling as Proof of FCA Liability
Courts increasingly let a sample of claims prove False Claims Act liability, not only damages. Here is how the methodology gets ch…