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Washington – August 15, 2024: The 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 42 Crowell & Moring lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 29 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”

Washington – August 17, 2023: The 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 47 firm lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 41 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”

Washington – August 18, 2022: The 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 54 firm lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 32 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on January 27, 2020 that Practice Fusion, a health information technology (IT) vendor, has entered into a civil settlement and deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) worth $145 million that resolves civil investigations led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, and the Civil Division’s Commercial Litigation Branch of main justice, as well as a criminal investigation led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont (collectively, the “Government”). The agreement is yet another in a series of civil False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute enforcement actions involving EHR vendors. However, the criminal kickback allegations against Practice Fusion notably focus on the financial relationships between EHR vendors and pharmaceutical manufacturers rather than those with providers, and demonstrate the Government’s view of how those relationships could potentially impact a provider’s clinical decision making. The DPA and new focus on clinical decision support (CDS) alerts within EHR software products should put vendors, manufacturers, and providers alike on notice of the potential consequences if faced with aggressive enforcement in this developing area of health information technology, and the need to take proactive steps to ensure that financial arrangements involving the development of EHR capabilities reflect practices compliant with health care fraud and abuse laws.

Crowell & Moring Partners Kelly Hibbert and Jed Wulfekotte, and Senior Counsel Janet Walker, members of the firm's Health Care Practice Group, will be speaking at this year's ABA National Managed Care Institute, which will be taking place in person at Greenberg Traurig December 14-15th in Washington, D.C. (CLE offered for both presentations.)

Join us for this year’s Health Care Ounce of Prevention Seminar (HOOPS), a webinar series where our experienced practitioners will provide insight into a number of exciting topics. This year’s seminar will focus on topics such as Remote Health Care and Telemedicine, Mental Health Parity, Health Care Litigation, and Health Care Trends for 2022. 

In this episode, hosts Joe Records and Payal Nanavati talk to Kelly Hibbert and Jed Wulfekotte about how Medicare plan sponsors and Medicaid Managed Care Organizations can structure an affirmative recovery program to prevent and detect fraud, waste, and abuse -- among other things.