Roughly three out of four large U.S. employers utilize exit interviews, which are considered a low-risk, low-cost way to acquire valuable information. However, companies who approach exit interviews with an “auto-pilot” mentality may expose themselves to increased employment liability if they do not think strategically about how and why they conduct such interviews. Conversely, a… Read more »
Charlotte, N.C. (April 24, 2019) – Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates (MEMA), an emergency medicine physician practice based in Charlotte, N.C., along with individual physicians Thomas L. Mason, M.D., and Steven G. Folstad, M.D., have filed an Amended Complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina alleging Health Management Associates, LLC… Read more »
Pietragallo Gordon Alfonso Bosick & Raspanti LLP is excited to announce Michael Morse will be participating in a panel discussion at the Health Care Compliance Association’s 23rd Annual Compliance Institute in Boston on April 7. Mr. Morse will be discussing False Claims Act fundamentals and the panel will review recent court interpretations since the Supreme… Read more »
Pamela Coyle Brecht will be speaking at the 2019 Health Law Institute presented by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Ms. Brecht will be on a panel presenting on the False Claims Act Update. The Institute will be on March 12-13, 2019 in Philadelphia, PA.
Marc Stephen Raspanti will be co-hosting a webcast called “False Claims Act 2019: Discussion with the Expert – Successful Strategies for False Claims Act and Qui Tam Representations” for the American Law Institute Continuing Legal Education. The webcast will be on February 13, 2019 from 12:30 – 2:30 pm. For more information or to register, click here.
Marc Stephen Raspanti will be speaking at the American Conference Institute’s 6th Advanced Forum on False Claims & Qui Tam Enforcement. His presentation is titled “From Initiating the Complaint to Government Intervention or Declination and Everything in Between,” given with co-presenter Colleen Kennedy from the United States Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of California. The… Read more »
Marc Stephen Raspanti will be speaking at the Health Care Compliance Association’s 4th Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference on “State Enforcement Actions: Where Are They Going in Today’s Enforcement Climate?” The Conference will be held on November 6, 2018 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC.
Last month, the Justice Department announced that Health Management Associates, formerly a U.S. hospital chain headquartered in Naples, Florida, will pay over $260 million to resolve charges that HMA knowingly billed government health care programs for inpatient services that should have been billed as outpatient or observation services, paid remuneration to physicians in return for… Read more »
Michael A. Morse authored “Understanding Whistleblowers: Best Practices for Compliance Professionals” which was published in November Compliance Today, a publication of the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA). Reprint permission granted. Related Information: Understanding Whistleblowers: Best Practices for Compliance
US ex rel Amy Bergman v. Abbott Laboratories US, et al, ex rel. Mason, Folstad, and MEMA v. HMA and EmCare US ex rel Miller & Metts v. HMA, et. al