As we noted in our recent civil update, the pace of criminal cases related to Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan fraud has not slowed. Here are a few significant cases from the last several months.
We just released Episode 46 of the False Claims Act Insights podcast where Robert Hess and I talk about a Ninth Circuit case that opens to door to False Claims Act liability for 340B overcharges.
Rob talks about why 340B is tremendously important to many in healthcare, and why its structure has historically resulted in
On August 4, I spoke with Cormac Connor, Todd Gee, Michael Schrier, and Julia Kopcienski for the latest edition of Husch Blackwell’s Government Enforcement, Compliance & Investigations webinar series. The session examined the federal government’s expanding use of the False Claims Act and other mechanisms to enforce the current administration’s anti-discrimination policy.
Between May 13 and June 1, 2026, the Department of Justice’s National Fraud Enforcement Division secured six separate jury trial convictions in five federal districts. The defendants span virtually every healthcare setting and role, from a software platform executive to a rural nurse practitioner. In total, alleged losses exceed $1.1 billion to Medicare, Medicaid, and other health benefit programs. The convictions in these cases illustrate and reconfirm the breadth and activeness of the DOJ’s current healthcare fraud enforcement activity.
We just released Episode 45 of the False Claims Act Insights podcast where Jody Rudman and I talk about this year’s big DOJ healthcare fraud takedown.
We talk about how this year’s takedown compares to those in prior years, and how Medicaid Fraud Control Units participated more than in the past. Jody also unpacks the
An AI agent scans a news alert, identifies a market opportunity, and places a trade in your brokerage account—all before you finish your morning coffee. This is not a hypothetical. It is the premise of Robinhood’s recently launched Agentic Trading platform, and it is a consequential development in AI-enabled financial services. It also arrives as the two primary federal regulators of U.S. financial markets, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), are actively building out AI governance frameworks.
States continue to lead the way in actions to enforce consumer protection laws against junk fees across a growing range of industries. In a recent Husch Blackwell Government Enforcement Investigation and Compliance webinar, that included its Antitrust & Competition group, the Texas AG’s cases against junk fees charged by major hotel and booking chains were highlighted and broader state and federal junk fee initiatives were summarized. Since then, two significant new state developments have concentrated attention on junk fees.
On June 24, 2026, Acting Attorney General of the United States Todd Blanche along with other senior government officials and leaders announced “the greatest combined federal and state effort in combating healthcare fraud in history.” The 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown heralded 455 defendants charged across 56 federal districts and 45 states and territories, in connection with more than $6.5 billion in alleged false claims submitted to Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health programs—all in a coordinated two-week window.
We just released Episode 44 of the False Claims Act Insights podcast where Bryan Nowicki and I talk about this year’s much publicized string of egregious hospice fraud.
Bryan and I talk about how criminal fraud impacts the hospice industry as a whole, and has a particular collateral consequence on legitimate hospice providers and their
On June 30, 2026, I spoke with Jeff Le Riche and Sarah Razaq Sallis during the latest edition of Husch Blackwell’s Government Enforcement, Compliance & Investigations webinar series.