Even though COVID-19 seems to be receding in the minds of many, it continues to be the source of significant law enforcement actions at the federal level. COVID-related criminal investigations and prosecutions, from a fr...
The end of the Public Health Emergency? And what comes next….
April 27, 2022
Recently, multiple organizations have urged President Biden and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to again extend the Public Health Emergency (PHE) designation and the emergency declarations currently in ...
The Long Reach of the COVID-19 Workplace Safety Protocols
October 11, 2021
On September 9, 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14042 (“Order”) which mandated that federal contractors provide adequate COVID-19 safeguards to their workers performing on or in connection with a federal...
Fraud Fallout from the Pandemic
July 19, 2021
Without question, the COVID-19 pandemic profoundly affected the health care industry. In some cases, the effects were fleeting, such as hospital over-crowding and supply chain challenges related to masks, oxygen and vent...
Texas OIG Quarterly Report Highlights: Texas Continues to Pursue COVID-19 Related Fraud
July 12, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic drove significant changes and expansion in care delivery practices. The federal government and the State of Texas implemented policy and treatment flexibility to ensure continued access to care and ...
FEDERAL COVID-19 FRAUD CRACKDOWN – FULL SPEED AHEAD IN 2021
June 28, 2021
Beginning in 2021, both the HHS OIG and the DOJ have leveraged their resources to focus to the fraud and abuse schemes against federal health care recipients and programs related to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the pandemic...
Fraud in the time of the Coronavirus Pandemic
May 10, 2021
Along with significant scientific and medical challenges, COVID-19 has also revealed significant fraud-related challenges. Some are novel and some are variations on age old schemes. This article addresses Coronavirus fra...
Conducting Investigations and Responding to Government Inquiries: Considerations in the Age of Remote Workforces
April 28, 2021
Streamline Verify is proud to have had the privilege of working with the Journal of Regulatory Compliance at Loyola University Chicago School of Law to help galvanize research and resources for the publication of their u...
Streamline Verify Supporting the Battle Against COVID-19
April 26, 2021
In March 2020, the World Health Organization classified COVID-19 as a pandemic. The federal government declared a Public Health Emergency shortly thereafter. For the first time in a century, our country was in the grip o...
