Compliance News
By The Compliance & Ethics Blog on Wednesday, May 31, 2023.
Humility has nothing to do with meekness or weakness. And neither does it mean being submissive. Humility is an attitude of intellectual modesty that comes from not assuming you already know everything.
By US Department of Justice, News on Wednesday, May 31, 2023.
The Justice Department announced today that ESSA Bank & Trust (ESSA) has agreed to pay over $3 million to resolve allegations that it engaged in a pattern or practice of lending discrimination by redlining majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in and around Philadelphia.
By US Department of Justice, News on Wednesday, May 31, 2023.
The Department of Justice today announced the filing of a civil action against James C. Justice III and 13 coal companies he owns or operates seeking to collect unpaid civil penalties previously assessed by the Department of the Interior (DOI) Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE), as well as Abandoned Mine Land (AML) reclamation fee and audit debts.
By SEC Press Releases on Tuesday, May 30, 2023.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced its settlement with the former head of Wells Fargo & Co.'s Community Bank, Carrie L. Tolstedt, in which she has agreed to pay a $3 million penalty stemming from charges brought in 2020 for her role in allegedly misleading investors about the success of the Community Bank, Wells Fargo's core business.
By The Compliance & Ethics Blog on Tuesday, May 30, 2023.
Jay Mumford is a long-time compliance veteran and Senior Global Compliance Manager at Bio-Rad Laboratories. There he developed an approach he calls MTR, which stands for Metrics, Targets and Response Plans. It's an approach, he explains, based on ideas from the quality movement.
By US Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday, May 30, 2023.
Medicare pays practitioners for physician services separately from the payments it makes to inpatient facilities, such as skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and hospitals. Practitioners report a two-digit place-of-service code on a Medicare claim line that generally reflects where the practitioner furnished the service. Medicare uses the place-of-service code to determine the payment to the practitioner.
By U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Georgia on Tuesday, May 30, 2023.
James Ellner, M.D., and his Woodstock, Georgia pain management practice, Georgia Pain Management, P.C., and ambulatory surgical center, Samson Pain Center, P.C, agreed to pay $625,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by submitting improper claims to the Medicare and TRICARE programs for evaluation and management services and medically unnecessary urine drug screening tests.
By The FCPA Blog on Friday, May 26, 2023.
American technology and consulting company Gartner, Inc. agreed Friday to pay the SEC $2.45 million to settle charges that it violated the FCPA by bribing officials at the South Africa Revenue Service.
By The FCPA Blog on Tuesday, May 23, 2023.
American pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer disclosed this month that the DOJ and SEC's investigation into possible FCPA violations has expanded to Mexico, the third county named so far.