Government and regulatory agencies have made detecting and prosecuting fraud, waste, and abuse a centerpiece of their enforcement efforts. The stakes are high, and government investigations are often bet-the-company endeavors. Robinson+Cole’s Health Care Enforcement + False Claims Act Litigation team has the experience and resources necessary to guide clients through government investigations and the defense of companies and individuals in civil and criminal enforcement matters.

Our Services

Our Health Care Enforcement + False Claims Act Litigation practice comprises a multidisciplinary group of attorneys who seamlessly work together to address our clients’ needs from various perspectives. We have health law, white-collar defense, litigation, and employment lawyers with significant experience in discretely conducting internal investigations and developing compliance plans to mitigate risk before the government becomes involved. And when government investigations arise, we have substantive experience defending companies in enforcement actions, negotiating resolutions, and aggressively litigating civil and criminal matters in federal and state courts.

We represent health care companies in federal and state civil and criminal investigations and litigation nationwide. We have represented clients before the Criminal and Civil divisions of the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Offices, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, state Medicaid Fraud Control Units, and state attorneys general offices throughout the country.

We defend a variety of health care providers, including clinical laboratories, medical device manufacturers, remote patient monitoring providers, durable medical equipment providers, hospitals, home health care agencies, physicians, pharmacies, and telehealth providers. We work with clients on all aspects of enforcement matters, responding to search warrants and civil investigative demands through resolution or trial. Member of our team have convinced prosecutors to decline cases and have successfully resolved many others through settlements that were favorable to our clients. We often handle parallel investigations involving civil litigation, administrative actions, and criminal investigations.

We have notable experience defending against allegations of offering or receiving kickbacks in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), violations of the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA), unlawful financial relationships and self-referrals in violation of the Stark Law, filing false claims with government health care programs in violation of the False Claims Act, and receiving overpayments from government health care payors.

Our Team

Our attorneys have a wide variety of government and health care backgrounds and bring their varied enforcement experience to bear through a multidisciplinary approach. We actively speak and write about enforcement trends in the health care industry and participate in professional organizations that bring government and defense attorneys together.