The Health Care Fraud Enforcement Juggernaut Continues
Fraud Recovery Efforts to Help Reform and Strengthens the False Claims Act
7/29/2009
At least since the enactment of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA; Pub. L. No. 104-191), the government has continued to invest increasing resources into combating health care fraud and abuse. The many observers who predicted this enforcement priority would peter out have been proven wrong, repeatedly. Now, in this year alone a series of events have come together that demonstrates the health care enforcement juggernaut will continue with renewed vigor. In this article, we discuss how the Obama administration and Congress promise to help pay for health care reform through fraud recovery savings, and Congress already took the first step on May 20 by enacting sweeping changes to the False Claims Act (FCA) as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009.
This article, written by Mintz Levin attorneys Thomas S. Crane, Sarah A. Kaput and Jennifer E. Williams, was published on July 29, 2009 in BNA's Health Care Fraud Report.
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