Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced a $235.9 million settlement with Xerox Corp. and its former subsidiaries resolving a May 2014 lawsuit filed by the Texas Attorney General’s Office (OAG) under the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act (TMFPA), State of Texas v. Xerox Corp. et al., Cause No. D-1-GV-14-000581, in the 353rd Judicial District Court of Travis County, Texas.
Read MoreKent Hofmann, a Commercial Litigation Partner in Locke Lord’s Austin office, authored an article for Bloomberg Law’s Health Law & Business section detailing a series of recent opinions and orders where Medicare providers have succeeded in obtaining injunctive relief to prevent recoupment of their Medicare revenues while prosecuting appeals of overpayment demands by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Read MoreTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced in a press release today that the Open Records Division of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) handled a record number of Texas Public Information Act (TPIA) requests and issued an all-time high number of rulings during state fiscal year 2018.
Read MoreA recent opinion from the Third Court of Appeals in Austin highlights the importance of double-checking deadlines to ensure all administrative remedies are exhausted before filing a lawsuit for judicial review of a state agency ruling. Otherwise, judicial review is jurisdictionally barred.
Read MoreOn September 5, 2018, U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra issued a permanent injunction blocking Senate Bill 8 (passed in 2017) from going into effect. Senate Bill 8 would prohibit health care providers from disposing of fetal remains in the same manner as other medical waste.
Read MoreAccording to an article in the Quorum Report published June 27, 2018, Governor Greg Abbott wants to review all Texas agency rules before they are posted in the Texas Register for public comment.
Read MoreOn June 22, 2018, the Texas Supreme Court issued two opinions arising from civil enforcement actions brought under the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act (TMFPA): Nazari v. State (No. 16-0549) and In re Xerox Corp. (No. 16-0671), a case that has been closely watched by Texas practitioners.
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