Mintz’s Health Care Enforcement Defense practice group is proud to present EnforceMintz, a regular newsletter analyzing current events, highlighting trends, and predicting future developments related to health care fraud enforcement. Similar to our annual year in review and outlook report published in recent years, EnforceMintz will report on qui tam cases brought under the False Claims Act (FCA), other government enforcement actions, and significant regulatory developments, but we will now publish updates throughout the year.

We started off 2023 by attending the American Conference Institute’s 10th Annual Advanced Forum on False Claims and Qui Tam Enforcement, where we had the opportunity to hear about the enforcement priorities of the Department of Justice (DOJ) straight from Michael Granston, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division. Granston highlighted DOJ’s continued interest in enforcement related to Medicare Advantage Organizations as well as alleged fraud by recipients of COVID-19 pandemic relief funds. He also assured attendees that DOJ’s cyber-fraud initiative is very active and that the agency is currently investigating a number of cyber-fraud and FCA allegations out of the public view. As you will see, all of these topics — and more — are explored in this newsletter.

Granston also provided some interesting statistics during his discussion of DOJ’s statutory authority to dismiss qui tam cases. He reported that, over the last five years, relators have...

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