Jones Day Talks Health Care: The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act
Recently, Holland & Knight healthcare attorneys have received questions as to whether the Eliminating Kickback in Recovery Act (EKRA) is still in effect, given the recent expiration of many provisions of the Substance...more
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Five years ago Congress enacted the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018 (“EKRA”). Aimed at combating kickbacks in the addiction treatment industry, EKRA prohibits remunerations in return for patient referrals to...more
The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA) was enacted by Congress in October of 2018 as part of the SUPPORT Act. While its initial focus was to address patient brokering and kickback schemes within recovery homes and...more
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Whether you operated a traditional diagnostic lab, a toxicology lab, or one that performs high-complexity genetic and genomic testing, there were plenty of regulatory nightmares to keep you up at night in 2022. It seems “the...more
It has been four years since Congress enacted the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (“EKRA”), codified at 18 U.S.C. § 220. EKRA initially targeted patient brokering and kickback schemes within the addiction treatment and...more
Since its passage in late 2018, the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA) (18 U.S.C. § 220) has posed interpretive challenges. Our detailed critical analysis of EKRA is available here...more
Enacted in 2018, the Eliminating Kickbacks Recovery Act (EKRA) remains a source of anxiety and confusion in the clinical laboratory industry. In the four years since EKRA's enactment, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)...more
The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA), a law that became effective in October 2018, extended federal kickback prohibitions to services provided by recovery homes, clinical treatment facilities, and laboratories...more
EKRA stands for the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, and it has become a prominent enforcement tool against fraud in the healthcare and medical testing industries. Although the law was developed in 2018 to help combat...more
As in the previous fiscal year, we expect the federal government to direct much of its fraud and abuse law enforcement activities at the health care industry. The federal government has many civil, criminal, and...more
Please join us for our annual healthcare compliance seminar to discuss current developments in healthcare regulation and hospital compliance... Registrants will have the option of selecting the sessions they would like to...more
Most health care providers have at least a basic understanding of the Anti-Kickback Statute. This federal law prohibits providers from offering, paying, soliciting, or accepting any form of “remuneration” for patient...more
On October 24, 2018, Congress passed the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act (the “SUPPORT Act”), two sections of which constitute the Eliminating...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”), the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and various other federal, state and local government agencies have focused enforcement efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic and are aggressively...more
I. INTRODUCTION - As discussed in recent alerts, federal and state authorities have focused their enforcement efforts on combatting fraud related to the COVID-19 pandemic....more
The first publicly disclosed prosecution under the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (“EKRA”) occurred last month, a little over a year after EKRA became law. As we described in a previous blog post, EKRA criminalizes...more
What appears to be the United States’ first conviction under the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (“EKRA”) occurred last month when the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky accepted the...more
In what can only be described as hastily-crafted legislation, Congress passed the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018 (EKRA), with an effective date of October 24, 2018. EKRA, from all accounts, was intended to...more
As in the healthcare industry generally, many, or even most, lab companies compensate an employee salesforce based on a range of commission structures (“base plus bonus”). The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018...more