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Late last year, the Centers for Disease Control released new advisory guidelines urging primary care doctors to take a more conservative approach to prescribing opioids. But doctors themselves are only...

Yet another report has come out detailing the failures of the IRS Whistleblower program, this time coming from a unit within the IRS itself. The National Taxpayer Advocate, an independent organization...

Oklahoma and Georgia recently have enacted false claims laws that allow private citizens to file qui tam lawsuits to recover funds the states have lost due to fraud. The Oklahoma Medicaid False Claims...

A British appeals court today upheld the conviction of Tom Hayes, a former UBS Group AG and Citigroup Inc. trader, for manipulating Libor and made clear that “everybody does it” is no excuse...

Endo Pharmaceuticals has been getting a lot of attention from the government lately. Just last week, Endo subsidiary Qualitest Pharmaceuticals, which manufactures chewable fluoride tablets prescribed to...

Illegal kickbacks to doctors seem to be fueling an explosive growth in worker’s compensation claims by hospitals. Last week the US Department of Justice announced five individuals including a former...

Whistleblowers helped the federal government recover more than $3.5 billion from civil cases involving fraud and false claims in fiscal year 2015. Qui tam cases filed under the False Claims Act proved...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is starting to take a closer look at rapidly growing private companies and the brokerage firms who help them trade their private stock almost entirely away from the...

An internal audit into the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s whistleblower program will be restarted after it took a seat to other priorities last year, according to a report from the agency’s...

Business arrangements between neuromonitoring companies and surgeons are raising concerns because of the impact those deals have on healthcare bills, according to a report from the Austin American-Statesman....