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The Anti-Kickback Statute [1] (AKS) is an American federal law prohibiting financial payments or incentives for referring patients or generating federal healthcare business. . The law, codified at 42 U.S. Code § 1320a–7b(b), [2] imposes criminal and, particularly in association with the federal False Claims Act, civil liability on those who knowingly and willfully offer, solicit, receive ...
Statutory Anti-Kickback Liability. The federal Anti-Kickback Statute, 42 U.S.C. 1320a-7b(b) (AKS) is a criminal statute which makes it improper for anyone to solicit, receive, offer or pay remuneration (monetary or otherwise) in exchange for referring patients to receive certain services that are paid for by the government. Previously, many ...
Signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on November 7, 1986 The Anti-Kickback Enforcement Act of 1986 ( Pub. L. 99–634 , 100 Stat. 3523 , enacted November 7, 1986 , originally codified at 41 U.S.C. § 51 et seq., recodified at 41 U.S.C. ch. 87 ) modernized and closed the loopholes of previous statutes applying to government contractors .
Copeland "Anti-kickback" Act; Long title: An Act to effectuate the purpose of certain statutes concerning rates of pay for labor, by making it unlawful to prevent anyone from receiving the compensation contracted for thereunder, and for other purposes: Enacted by: the 73rd United States Congress: Effective: June 13, 1934: Citations; Public law ...
In 1986, the United States Congress passed the stringent Anti-Kickback Enforcement Act to prevent such schemes. [7] The Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) prohibits medical providers and physicians from paying or receiving kickbacks or any financial benefits in return for referrals of patients who are covered under federal healthcare programs ...
Alabama state Rep. John Rogers has pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempting to obstruct a federal investigation into an alleged kickback scheme involving state grants. The longtime lawmaker ...
Under federal law, health care fraud in the United States is defined, and made illegal, primarily by the health care fraud statute in 18 U.S.C. § 1347 states [4] (a) Whoever knowingly executes, or attempts to execute, a scheme or artifice— (1) to defraud a financial institution; or
Kopchinski and his attorneys filed the False Claims Act complaint in 2004 and alleged Pfizer systemically violated the federal Anti-Kickback statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b) and the off-label marketing provision within the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ("FDCA"), 21 U.S.C. §§ 301-97. [37]