Bass, Berry & Sims is pleased to announce the release of the 14th annual Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review examining important healthcare fraud developments in 2025.
As part of the firm’s recognition as a Healthcare Practice Group of the Year, Law360 published a profile of Bass, Berry & Sims featuring the practice’s highlights from the past year. In the profile, Law360 notes that “over 300 attorneys at Bass Berry work on healthcare industry matters, with expertise spanning transactions, regulatory issues and enforcement and adjacent areas including antitrust, privacy and executive compensation.”
Our 13th annual Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review, compiled by the Bass, Berry & Sims Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Task Force, is now available, providing an in-depth look at the key enforcement trends, legal decisions, and settlements shaping the healthcare industry in 2024.
Bass, Berry & Sims is pleased to announce the release of the 12th annual Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review examining important healthcare fraud developments in 2023.
Bass, Berry & Sims is pleased to announce the release of the 11th annual Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review examining important healthcare fraud developments in 2022.
Bass, Berry & Sims is pleased to announce the release of the 10th annual Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review examining important healthcare fraud developments in 2021. Compiled by the firm’s Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Task Force, the Review provides a comprehensive analysis of enforcement developments affecting the healthcare industry, significant court decisions involving the False Claims Act, and an overview of settlements involving fraud and abuse issues.
Bass, Berry & Sims is pleased to announce the release of the newest edition of its Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Annual Review examining important healthcare fraud developments in 2020. Compiled by the firm’s Healthcare Fraud Task Force, the Review provides an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the past year’s court decisions involving the False Claims Act, settlements involving significant fraud and abuse issues, and enforcement developments affecting the healthcare industry.
When we released last year’s Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review in early 2020, none of us could have predicted what the year ahead would bring. By March 2020, we saw healthcare professionals standing at the forefront of one of the greatest health crises in a generation and we saw our healthcare system quickly stressed to the breaking point by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the next several months, we saw trillions of stimulus dollars distributed by the federal government to provide economic relief to individuals and businesses. By 2020’s end, we saw the beginnings of a massive and historic vaccine rollout designed to stem the continued rising tide of COVID-19 infections against the backdrop of leadership changes at the highest levels of government.
Along the way, we continued to pay close attention to the fraud and abuse issues facing the healthcare industry. Our Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review covers these issues and looks ahead to the challenges likely to come for healthcare providers facing the prospect of increased government scrutiny, whistleblower lawsuits under the False Claims Act, and government regulators pursuing civil and criminal healthcare fraud enforcement.
This year’s Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review examines:
Enforcement developments impacting the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
As a companion to this year’s Review, the firm will host a webinar on Thursday, February 18 from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET / 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CT / 8:00 – 10:00 a.m. PT. The webinar will take a deeper dive into key focus areas covered throughout the Review, including:
The webinar is complimentary and pending approval for two hours General Tennessee CLE credit. Please provide your BPR number upon registration in order for Bass, Berry & Sims to report your participation to the Tennessee CLE Commission following the webinar.
Bass, Berry & Sims does not seek direct accreditation from states outside of Tennessee, but some states allow attorneys to earn credit through reciprocity or self-submission. Certificates of completion and other common supporting documents will be provided for use in jurisdictions outside of Tennessee.
Questions? Please email Claire Krummenacher.
Bass, Berry & Sims is pleased to announce the release of the 2019 edition of its Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Annual Review. Compiled by the firm’s Healthcare Fraud Task Force, the Review is an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of enforcement settlements, court decisions, and recent developments affecting the healthcare industry.
The Review details all healthcare-related False Claims Act (FCA) settlements from last year, organized by particular sectors of the healthcare industry. In addition to reviewing all healthcare fraud-related settlements, the Review includes updates on enforcement-related litigation involving the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), and looks at the continued implications from the government’s focus on enforcement efforts involving individual actors in connection with civil and criminal healthcare fraud investigations.
The latest Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review takes a closer look at:
Bass, Berry & Sims is pleased to announce the release of its seventh annual Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Review. The Review, compiled by the firm’s Healthcare Fraud Task Force, is an in-depth and comprehensive review of enforcement settlements, court decisions and developments affecting the healthcare industry.
The Review is intended to assist healthcare providers in developing a greater understanding of the civil and criminal enforcement risks they face during a time of great uncertainty for the healthcare industry. Without question, understanding the key developments during the prior year is an important step in implementing necessary safeguards designed to minimize enforcement risks for healthcare providers.
Our Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Review covers:
Perhaps the single most appropriate word to describe the current state of the civil and criminal healthcare fraud enforcement environment is uncertainty. From changes in personnel and policy at the highest levels of government to a myriad of state and federal legislative developments, healthcare providers face an unsettled landscape as they move into the coming year.
To be sure, statistics would suggest that it was business as usual for the government’s healthcare fraud enforcement efforts. While civil fraud recoveries by the Department of Justice (DOJ) dipped to more than $2.8 billion in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018 (FY 2018) as compared to $3.7 billion in FY 2017, recoveries attributable to the healthcare industry were $2.5 billion in FY 2018 – up from $2.1 billion in FY 2017. This is the ninth consecutive year where recoveries associated with the healthcare industry exceeded $2 billion.