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DOJ Pursues Philadelphia Law Firm Over Six Thousand Dollars’ Worth of Conditional Payments, Firm Settles with DOJ

January 10, 2020

January 8, 2020 By: Jason D. Lazarus, J.D., LL.M., MSCC The Department of Justice (DOJ) is serious about and intent on enforcement of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act when it comes to conditional payments. There are now numerous examples of these actions being taken by the DOJ. In this instance, the case against a Philadelphia-based […]

Medicare Compliance, or Else Redux: A Third Law Firm Settles with the DOJ for Failing to be MSP Compliant

November 5, 2019

By Jason D. Lazarus, J.D., LL.M., MSCC The government takes its reimbursement rights seriously and is willing to pursue trial lawyers who ignore Medicare’s interest. On November 4th, 2019, The United States Attorney for the District of Maryland announced that a Baltimore-based law firm paid the United States $91,406.98 to resolve allegations that it failed […]