Pharmacy and Owner Accused of Billing Medicare for Undispensed Prescription Medications U.S. Attorney David Metcalf announced ...

On July 29, 2025, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memorandum titled ​“Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding ...

Our Health Care Litigation Team discusses a District of Massachusetts case holding that allows the government to switch liability theories in ...

An Allentown pharmacy and its owner will pay $825,000 to the federal government to resolve allegations that the pharmacy ...

Consider the False Claims Act (FCA), a costly vector of potential liability for federal contractors. The law imposes liability on an individual who "knowingly presents, or causes to be presented ...

A Broken Arrow dentist has agreed to pay more than $500,000 to the state after he allegedly violated the Oklahoma Medicaid ...

1. Initial development of the False Claims Act. The False Claims Act, also known as the “Lincoln Law" after its primary proponent, President Abraham Lincoln, was initially developed during the Civil ...

See Universal Health Services To Pay $117 Million To Settle False Claims Act Allegations, DOJ, Eastern Dist. of Pa. (July 10, 2020).

John P. Relman is the founding partner of Relman Colfax, a civil rights law firm, and Zoila Hinson is a partner at Relman Colfax and co-authored an explainer on the False Claims Act joined All Things ...

The bill—which already passed the House of Representatives in a 138-7 vote—would prohibit false claims submitted to any state officer, employee, or agent or any contractor using state funds.

The False Claims Act is the chief law for penalizing contractors that allegedly misuse federal funds. Last year’s decline stemmed in part from Covid-19, which made investigations more difficult ...

False Claims Act qui tam actions run the gamut of federally funded programs, from Medicare and Medicaid to defense and other government procurement contracts, federally insured mortgage and other ...