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ChristianaCare Settlement Drives New Legal Theory in False Claims Act Litigation: Hospitals Take Note When Providing Clinical Services to Their Private Physician Groups

Healthcare Law Blog

million to resolve a lawsuit filed by the system’s former Chief Compliance Officer, Ronald Sherman. Global billing or collaborative care arrangements are not per se violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute, however, there is greater fraud and abuse risk in these types of arrangements unless there is active, ongoing monitoring for compliance.

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2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010

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These improper payments may be overpayments or underpayments and do not necessarily represent expenses that should not have occurred. This is the second consecutive year the rate has been below the 10 percent threshold for compliance established in the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010. . percent in 2015 to 17.61