Tag: Investigations
Federal Trade Commission launches Healthcare Task Force
March 24, 2026HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson has directed the agency’s staff to form a Healthcare Task Force that will engage in a coordinated, integrated approach to health care enforcement and advocacy to protect American patients, health care works and taxpayers. In a new memo, he directed the FTC’s Bureaus of Competition, Consumer Protection and Economics, as well as the Office of Policy Planning and Office of Technology, to form the task force to
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HHS-OIG highlight $7B in savings in new report
December 9, 2024HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – The Fall 2024 Semiannual Report to Congress (SAR) highlights more than $7 billion in expected recoveries and receivables resulting from HHS-OIG investigations and audits conducted during fiscal year 2024. HHS-OIG reported 1,548 criminal and civil enforcement actions in FY 2024 against individuals and entities suspected of engaging in crimes targeting HHS programs and the people they serve, including settlements resulting from using OIG's civil monetary penalty authorities...
ITC accepts ResMed's request to investigate
May 13, 2016HME News Staff
SAN DIEGO - ResMed has announced that the U.S. International Trade Commission has accepted its request to investigate alleged infringement of its patented technology by Chinese manufacturer BMC Medical and its U.S. distributor, 3B Medical. The ITC has agreed to review the alleged infringement of four ResMed patents by BMC's first and second-generation flow generator products, the RESmart and the Luna. The patents that have been allegedly infringed include a patent relating to a flow generator and...