Mr. Becker covered a range of topics and trends, from the rise of qui tam cases under the False Claims Act to compliant, bona fide physician employment arrangements. Here are summaries of a few key concepts discussed.
1. False Claims Act. Cases of hospitals violating the False Claims Act are more common today, as Mr. Becker said the law is more widely applied. It was easier years ago to distinguish a correlation between FCA cases and bad actors, or egregious and severe violations. But now, under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, if hospitals violate the Stark Law or Anti-Kickback Statute, the law automatically categorizes claims resulting from those relationships as false claims. Thus, an FCA case can stem from a documentation error or other technical error.
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