The Sixth Circuit expanded the existing circuit split regarding when a kickback causes a federal health care claim to be false or fraudulent under the False Claims Act (FCA) and set out a new analysis for what constitutes...more
The Eighth Circuit released an opinion Tuesday in U.S. ex rel. Cairns v. D.S. Medical LLC that creates a new circuit split on the interpretation of the causation standard for establishing that a claim “resulting from” a...more
Following on last October’s publication of two proposed rules, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published on November 20 two final rules intended to “modernize and clarify” the physician self-referral (Stark)...more
On October 3, the U.S. Congress passed H.R. 6, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act (the SUPPORT Act), a wide-reaching bill that aims to...more
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