False Claims Act and Cybersecurity, Part II

cybersecurity

Earlier this week we reviewed the case of a medical device company fined nearly $10 million under the False Claims Act for poor cybersecurity practices. Now let’s look at another example of the issue, because we have a second recent False Claims Act enforcement action for poor cybersecurity that had considerably different circumstances and outcome.…

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When False Claims Act and Cybersecurity Collide

Illumina

Today we return to enforcement of the False Claims Act, and a case from last week where the Justice Department fined a medical device maker $9.8 million for failing to meet promised cybersecurity standards. Cybersecurity risk and increased enforcement of the False Claims Act are sizzling issues for compliance in the Trump 2.0 era, so…

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New Healthcare Fraud Crackdown

healthcare

Some red meat for all you compliance officers in the healthcare sector: the Trump Administration plans to increase its enforcement of the False Claims Act, courtesy of a new and improved task force run by the Justice Department and the Department of Health & Human Services. The two departments announced the task force on July…

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Next: New False Claims Act Guidance

Justice

Another day, another piece of guidance from the Justice Department about corporate compliance programs — this time, explaining how companies might win cooperation credit when facing violations of the False Claims Act. The Civil Division of the Justice Department posted the guidance Tuesday afternoon. The the material hews closely to what the Criminal Division has…

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