On July 10, 2023, the European Commission adopted an adequacy decision for the new EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“EU-U.S. DPF”), the successor to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, which the Court of Ju...

DETROIT - Semaje Reffigee, a former employee of the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (MUIA), was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment today arising from her participation in a $313,000 pandem...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked analysis, commentary, and some trepidation about what will happen in health care and across society as computers gain intelligence. The effects are not nec...

Do the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act (FCA), see 31 U.S.C. § 3730(b)(1), violate the Executive Branch’s exclusive grant of authority under Article II of the United States Constitution?...

A 27-year-old mother in Texas was arrested after she allegedly subjected her 3-year-old daughter to multiple unnecessary medical procedures and surgeries, a condition also known as Munchausen synd...

On June 27, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued its long-anticipated final rule amending the OIG’s civil monetary penalty (CMP) regulati...

Electronic health record (EHR) vendor NextGen Healthcare Inc. will pay $31 million to settle allegations it misrepresented its software capabilities and paid users for recommendations. The U.S. Dep...

More than 2 million Americans who died in 2020 and 2021 might still be alive today if the United States had mortality rates equal to those of other developed nations. A new study examined how many...

[co-author: Alec Smith] On March 29, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granted the parties’ joint stipulation for dismissal in U.S. ex. rel. Godsholl v. Covenant He...

Dr. John Chung, a dermatologist who operates clinics across North Georgia and Southeast Tennessee including in Dalton, and his practice have agreed to pay the federal government more than $6 milli...