The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued a pivotal ruling earlier this week, finding that in order to establish falsity in a False Claims Act (“FCA”) case premised on Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) liability, the kickback must have been the “but-for” cause of the submission of the claim. The court’s decision hinged

As of October 3, 2019, the Office of Management and Budget completed its review of the proposed rules for “modernizing and clarifying” the Physician Self-Referral Regulations and revising the safe harbors under the Anti-Kickback Statute and rules regarding the Beneficiary Inducement Civil Monetary Penalties Law.

These regulations were the subject of two Requests for Information