DOJ and HHS Emphasize Continued, Robust, and Coordinated Health Care Enforcement with Revival of False Claims Act Working Group
The government has announced a renewed and expanded focus on False Claims Act ( FCA ) enforcement, doubling down on traditional health care priorities like kickbacks and drug pricing while signaling increased scrutiny of Electronic Health Records ( EHR ) manipulation, a shift that could expose data vendors and other non-traditional health care entities to the US Department of Justice ( DOJ ) and the US Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS ) scrutiny. Read the announcement here . Leveraging enhanced cross-agency collaboration and sophisticated data mining, federal agencies are poised to generate new investigative leads, building on recent DOJ enforcement successes. Key Points of Emphasis and Related Compliance Takeaways The revived DOJ-HHS FCA Working Group signals that aggressive, coordinated health care enforcement is not only continuing but expanding into data-driven and technology-enabled frontiers. Reinvigorated False Claims Act Wor...