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2 months ago | mondaq.com | David Lazarus |Yoni Bard

Courts continue to reject aggressive Anti-Kickback Statute("AKS") allegations. Most recently, on January 6, 2025,Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District ofMassachusetts dismissed a qui tam action against clinicallaboratory MD Spine Solutions LLC ("MD Labs") and itsowners, Denis Grizelj and Matthew Rutledge, based in part on lackof causation. Omni Healthcare, Inc. v. MD Spine SolutionsLLC, No. 18-cv-12558-PBS, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1680 (D. Mass. Jan. 6, 2025).

2 months ago | mondaq.com | Caroline Donovan |David Lazarus |Yoni Bard |Jasmine Brown

We kick off our annual Year in Preview series with acomprehensive look at health care fraud enforcement in 2025. Thispost proceeds in three parts. First, we explore what the secondTrump administration might bring, looking at enforcement metricsfrom Trump's first presidency while examining the priorities wemight expect from the current nominees to key health care agencies.

2 months ago | mondaq.com | Samuel R. Hoff |David Lazarus |Yoni Bard

On January 8, 2025, Governor Maura Healey signed House Bill 5159 into law, toughening the rulesand increasing the risks for private equity (PE) companies, realestate investment trusts (REITs), and management servicesorganizations (MSOs) doing business with Massachusetts healthcareproviders. The new law stops short of banning these investors fromtaking an interest in healthcare providers, but it does expandtheir filing and reporting requirements.

2 months ago | mondaq.com | Caroline Donovan |David Lazarus |Yoni Bard

This is the sixth in our 2025 Year in Preview seriesexamining important trends in white collar law and investigationsin the coming year. We will be posting further installments in theseries throughout the next several weeks. Our previous post,"Year in Preview: Review of and Insights into Investigationsby the 119th Congress" can be found here. The Attorney General and key Department of Justice leadershipare now in place and appear to have hit the ground running.

Jan 8, 2025 | jdsupra.com | Yoni Bard |David Lazarus

Courts continue to reject aggressive Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) allegations. Most recently, on January 6, 2025, Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts dismissed a qui tam action against clinical laboratory MD Spine Solutions LLC (“MD Labs”) and its owners, Denis Grizelj and Matthew Rutledge, based in part on lack of causation. Omni Healthcare, Inc. v. MD Spine Solutions LLC, No. 18-cv-12558-PBS, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1680 (D. Mass. Jan. 6, 2025).