Year: 2020

According to Reuters, Pfizer Inc. filed a lawsuit on June 26, 2020, to make it possible to help beneficiaries of the federal healthcare program – Medicare – pay for two drugs to treat a rare and sometimes fatal heart disease, and that cost $225,000 a year.

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Corruption is a topic that always attracts the attention of the media and society.  In some ways, it resembles a kind of metastatic societal cancer, in which a cell released into the bloodstream may burst like a new tumor, anytime, anywhere.

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A TV commercial recently broadcast to promote a vehicle hire application informed viewers that it was the first and only company in the sector security certified by the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT).

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Is your risk assessment up to date?  This is a question that should regularly be asked within any financial institution.  Unfortunately, in most cases, the answer is postponed or even ignored, up until the moment when a government agent needs to evaluate that company’s compliance program.

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The US Department of Justice (USDOJ) announced a historic nationwide enforcement action against healthcare fraud.  This unprecedented initiative involves 345 charged defendants in 51 federal districts, including more than 100 doctors, nurses, and other licensed medical professionals.

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