tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 11

Fraud & Abuse: THIS IS HEALTH CARE FRAUD ON DRUGS

Think the federal government isn’t still taking health care fraud and abuse seriously? Think again. In a case that demonstrates just how odious government enforcement agencies — and the nation’s courts — consider health care fraud, the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to lay down the law on whether a mentally ill health care provider can be forced to take anti-psychotic drugs to stand trial for his alleged crimes. The case is an appeal from an 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision holding that the government did indeed have a right to compel Dr...

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