False Claims Act

Foley’s False Claims Act Health Care Group is a cross-disciplinary team with extensive experience in counseling and investigating FCA matters, and defending qui tam and government-initiated FCA cases, combining deep strength in litigating FCA claims with market-leading, substantive knowledge in health care issues. The team regularly defends FCA cases across the country and provides counseling on billing and compliance issues in all types of situations, including anti-kickback statutes, Safe Harbors, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, pending legislation, and the Stark Law as well as other FCA-related issues. They also conduct pre-litigation internal investigations both proactively and in response to government actions.

Several of Foley’s False Claim Act and Whistleblower Defense attorneys previously worked as civil Assistant United States Attorneys, handling FCA cases for the government. The team represents businesses confronting whistleblowers incentivized by rich bounties.

We have brought together in a unified practice its leading lawyers in each of the targeted areas of law: False Claims Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank, SEC, IRS, labor and employment, and a number of others. This group has attorneys located in the major districts that bring FCA cases, including Massachusetts, California, Illinois, Florida, and Washington, D.C., and has litigated FCA cases in district courts and state courts located across the United States.