title: On the ropes. Beefed-up anti-kickback laws, growing cohort of whistleblowers pound away at healthcare fraud.
abstract: The federal government, armed with more fraud-fighting personnel and bigger budgets, is combining beefed-up kickback laws with the Civil War-era False Claims Act to hit providers with a one-two legal punch. Increasingly, providers are finding their only option is to pay big settlements.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005607:Fraud / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D008484:Medicaid / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D017008:Negotiating; D018584:Physician Self-Referral / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012308:Risk Management; D014342:Truth Disclosure; D014481:United States; D014483:United States Dept. of Health and Human Services