Ride along with Mark as he discusses how competing via providing free services, such as uncompensated medical directorships, or giving into a facility’s demand for free services, is a violation of the federal anti-kickback statute.
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An outsider with no knowledge of any single fraudulent claim brings a False Claims Act suit.
In general terms, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) prohibits the offer, demand, payment, and acceptance of remuneration—that is, of anything of value—for referrals.
All of your claims might have been deemed “false claims” subject to recoupment times a factor of 3…
This applies regardless of specialty or whether you are hospital-based or office-based. This applies whether you are in solo practice or with a group.
There’s an expression in carpentry, “measure twice, cut once.”
That’s odd, because physicians sometime demonstrate that ability, at least on billing records.
As the law’s developed over time, it now impacts a wide range of equally unscrupulous behavior in a wide range of government contracting, including the filing of fictitious and overstated claims for health care services under federal health care programs.
Remember, that in cases of this sort, which are civil, not criminal, settlements resolve allegations, do not involve any admission of culpability or guilt…
As always in these types of cases, which are civil actions, the settlement does not involve any admission that the allegations were true.