On Sept. 22, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee issued an opinion in United States, et al., ex rel. Nolan, et al. v. HCA Healthcare, Inc., 2025 WL 2713747 (M.D. Tenn. Sept.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, in United States v. Regeneron, has joined the Sixth and Eighth Circuits in adopting the “but-for” standard to find that a violation of the ...

In the spring of 2025, two federal courts issued decisions interpreting the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, with one court narrowing the conduct that is prohibited while the other court refused to do ...

The executive paid more than $540,000 in bribes masked as consulting fees to steer surgeons toward the company’s products, ...

Device makers may find it difficult to avoid running afoul of the Anti-Kickback Statute, but a recent case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit suggests that the statutory definition ...

“Under [the plaintiffs'] reading, virtually all pharmaceutical product-support services would qualify as a kickback,” U.S. District Court Judge John Tharp for the Northern District of Illinois said. A ...

The Department of Justice on Thursday announced an $18.25 million settlement with electronic health records (EHR) technology vendor athenahealth (Athena) for allegedly paying unlawful kickbacks to ...

Paying illegal kickbacks to doctors so they refer patients undermines the integrity of federal health care programs and ...

TrumpRx is officially launched, and the jury is still out on whether the platform will do much to decrease healthcare costs for most U.S. patients. But as more pharma companies partner with TrumpRx or ...

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