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DOJ Focuses Antitrust Enforcement on Health Care Industry

Posted on June 5, 2018 by
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As health care attorneys we are often called upon to consider the antitrust implications in a variety of contracts and transactions.  For example, the establishment of clinically integrated health care networks requires consideration of potential price fixing and exclusionary issues.  The antitrust laws require elements of financial and clinical integration in order to mitigate potential […]

Federal Government Will Seek Dismissal of False Claims Act Cases That Lack Merit

Posted on November 28, 2017 by
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A top official in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced a major change in the federal government’s position on claims brought under the False Claims Act (FCA).  Michael Granston, the director of DOJ’s Civil Frauds Section, the section that handles health care fraud and other FCA cases, stated that the DOJ will ask […]