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What Is the Prescription Interdiction & Litigation (PIL) Task Force?

Categories: Health Care Law

The Prescription Interdiction & Litigation (PIL) Task Force is one of the DOJ’s newest efforts to target health care providers as it seeks to combat the nation’s opioid crisis. Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the formation of a new Prescription Interdiction & Litigation (PIL) Task Force. This follows the creation…

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How Can Pharmacists Be Charged with Prescription Drug Fraud?

Categories: Health Care Law

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Pharmacists are currently at high risk for being targeted in Federal Health Care Fraud investigations. If your pharmacy or compound pharmacy is under investigation, we can help. When you went to pharmacy school, the last thing on your mind was the risk of being targeted in a federal investigation. As you went through school, you…

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When Is Healthcare Fraud Criminal?

Categories: Anti-Kickback Issues

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Dr. Nick Oberheiden, Esq. www.federal-lawyer.com Direct: (214) 469-9009 1-800-810-0259 Call Us on Weekends A question of critical importance in every healthcare investigation is whether the case can be resolved civilly, i.e. without recourse to criminal prosecution. Often, the determination as to whether a case is civil or criminal is unclear at the beginning of the…

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5 Prescription Mistakes That Will Get Physicians into Trouble

Categories: Health Care Law

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Dr. Nick Oberheiden, Esq. www.federal-lawyer.com Direct: (214) 469-9009 1-800-810-0259 Call Us on Weekends Of the many regulations affecting the healthcare industry, those involving prescription requirements can cause some of the biggest problems for physicians if they are not carefully followed.  Because prescribing needed medicine is an important part of most doctors’ practices, you must be…

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Federal Pharmacy Investigations At All-Time High

Categories: Anti-Kickback Issues

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Dr. Nick Oberheiden, Esq. www.federal-lawyer.com Direct: (214) 469-9009 1-800-810-0259 Call Us on Weekends As we have been advising our clients over the past years, federal agencies are demonstrating heightened and increasingly penetrative investigations into compound pharmacies.  In particular, the Department of Defense has stepped up its investigation into such pharmacies and their Tricare billings after…

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