By: Aaron E. Kacer and Steven T. Lawrence On September 9, 2026, in its latest Financial Trend Analysis on Health Care Fraud (FTA), the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) identified approximately $17.5 billion in suspicious financial activity potentially linked to healthcare fraud.[1] The FTA was based on…
Article by: Chelsea L. Gulinson & Cober C. Plucker It’s fun to use generative artificial intelligence to see what your pet might look like as a cartoon. It’s not so fun to be sanctioned for using AI-hallucinated cases in a legal brief. Like it has with many industries, AI has rapidly transformed the legal profession.…
By: Ian M. Stanford and Steven T. Lawrence Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly embedded in business operations across all industries. A McKinsey survey in late 2025 found that 88 percent of companies reported using AI in at least one business function.[1] AI poses unique risks for companies that contract with supply chain or information…
By: Aaron E. Kacer and Steven T. Lawrence On March 30, 2026, the U.S. Treasury and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced a new coordinated policy aimed at fraud schemes that intend to exploit Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal and state healthcare benefit programs.[1] The new policy includes (i) FinCEN advisory describing common healthcare…
Written by: Ian M. Stanford and Steven T. Lawrence If your business includes any sort of subscription-based or membership model, a new federal regulation may change how your customers cancel their subscription or membership. On October 16, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission announced its final “Click-to-Cancel” rule. The new rule applies to “negative option programs,”…
On June 21, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA”) emergency temporary standard (“ETS”) aimed at limiting the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace went into effect.[1] OSHA found, in part, that the COVID-19 pandemic “presents a grave danger to workers in all healthcare settings” and issued the ETS in response.[2] Who is…
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