Mar 182025

DOJ Enforcement Outlook in Health Care Compliance for 2025

Jaime L.M. Jones
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Some predicted a drop in False Claims Act (”FCA”) enforcement during the first Trump administration, but setting aside a likely pandemic-related slowdown during 2020–2022, FCA cases — both DOJ-initiated and qui tam — during the early part of the first Trump administration were consistent with the volume in the later part of the Biden administration.

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This article originally appeared in Reuters Legal News.

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Jaime L.M. Jones

Chicago

jaime.jones@sidley.com

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