Compliance Update

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a reevaluation of healthcare regulations, particularly with regard to telemedicine and the prescription of controlled medications. One significant development in this area is the temporary exceptions granted by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to the Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008, which governs the prescription...

A New Jersey-based clinical laboratory and its owner and CEO, Eric Leykin of New York, have agreed to pay $13 million to settle False Claims Act allegations involving the payment of illegal kickbacks and medically unnecessary lab testing. According to the settlement agreement, Leykin, owner and CEO of RDx Bioscience, perpetuated a healthcare kickback scheme that took place between 2017 and 2023...

Three people have been found guilty in a fraudulent nursing degree scheme the feds dubbed “Operation Nightingale”. Gail Russ, registrar of the Palm Beach School of Nursing in Lake Worth; Cassandre Jean, owner and operator of Success Nursing Review in Brooklyn, New York; and Vilaire Duroseau, owner and operator of the Center for Advance Training and Studies in West Orange, New Jersey were...

This article was published in partnership with the Miami Herald. To understand the problems with Florida’s oversight of anti-abortion pregnancy centers, you don’t have to look much further than Mary’s Pregnancy Resource Center, north of Miami. The crisis pregnancy center in Broward County steered women away from abortion while providing free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds and parenting classes....

The jury spoke November 8, 2023 in the pending litigation “State Farm Auto. Ins. Co. v. Michael Thomas Larocca, DC, et al,” case number 8:21-cv-2536-SCB-AEP. The 16 Defendants, which included chiropractors, medical doctors, and nurse practitioners were held not guilty of committing fraud, civil conspiracy, unjust enrichment, and violating the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act...

Another defendant who was part of a multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud scheme tied to unnecessary genetic testing has been convicted by a federal jury. Jose Goyos of West Palm Beach was indicted in February 2022 along with nine others in the Southern District of Florida for their alleged roles in a $67 million healthcare fraud, wire fraud, kickback, and money laundering scheme involving the...