In 2019, the False Claims Act (“FCA”) remained the federal government’s (“Government”) primary method of civil fraud enforcement. While the more than $3 billion in civil fraud recoveries in Fiscal Year (“FY”) 2019 resulted...more
Originally published in Haig, Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, Fourth Edition §§ 87:1 et seq. © 2016 American Bar Association.
This chapter discusses federal court litigation relating to health care...more
12/30/2016
/ Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ,
Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Breach of Duty ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
EMTALA ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
OIG ,
Preemption ,
Price-Fixing ,
Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) ,
Reimbursements ,
Stark Law
In a pending False Claims Act (“FCA”) case stemming from alleged violations of the physician self-referral law (the “Stark Law”), 42 U.S.C. § 1395nn, and the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”), 42 U.S.C. §1320a-7b, the...more