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The Anti-Kickback Statute (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), [1] imposes criminal and, particularly in association with the federal False Claims Act, civil liability on those who knowingly and willfully offer, solicit, receive, or pay ...
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 ...
The Copeland "Anti-kickback" Act (Pub. L. 73–324, 48 Stat. 948, enacted June 13, 1934, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 874) is a U.S. labor law and act of Congress that supplemented the Davis–Bacon Act of 1931. [1] It prohibits a federal building contractor or subcontractor from inducing an employee into giving up any part of the compensation that ...
The Anti-Kickback Statute makes it illegal for pharmaceutical companies to offer discounts for medications that will be paid for by the federal government. When purchasing medications, Medicare ...
This behavior violated the Anti-Kickback Statute, which prohibits offering payment to induce patient referrals under federally funded programs like Medicare. ... This article CVS Subsidiary Oak ...
The case represented the biggest whistleblower settlement under the federal anti-kickback law ... Though gun manufacturers have some protections against wrongful death lawsuits under federal law ...
The Anti-Kickback Enforcement Act of 1986 (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 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.
Kickback (bribery) A kickback is a form of negotiated bribery in which a commission is paid to the bribe-taker in exchange for services rendered. Generally speaking, the remuneration (money, goods, or services handed over) is negotiated ahead of time. The kickback varies from other kinds of bribes in that there is implied collusion between ...