Warding off False Claims Actions.(GUEST EDITORIAL)
Publication: Internal Medicine News
Publication Date: 01-DEC-04
Author: Hager, Rose
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Action under the federal False Claims Act is emerging as a potentially more devastating threat to a physician's practice than is malpractice liability.
Despite laws that provide specific penalties for medical fraud, the federal government has increasingly relied upon the False Claims Act (FCA) to prosecute such cases. Employing a legal theory called false certification claims, the government can use the FCA to prosecute a physician for erroneously billed Medicare claims.
In 2003, the government collected $2.1 billion in fraud...
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