Health Care Fraud in the Era of COVID-19

As the race to vaccinate continues, state and federal enforcement agencies are hard at work investigating and prosecuting COVID-19-related health care fraud. As Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicholas L. McQuaid of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division stated in March: “To anyone thinking of using the global pandemic as an opportunity to scam and steal from hardworking Americans, my advice is simple—don’t.”1 Recent enforcement efforts in the health care realm have targeted...
By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

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