False Claims Act/Qui Tam

This blog is about qui tam, a  lawsuit brought under the False Claims Act by a private plaintiff on behalf of the Federal or State Government (rather than by the Government itself). The False Claims Act was originally enacted by Congress in 1863, as a response to widespread abuses by government contractors against the Union Army during the Civil War. The qui tam provisions are now used widely and this blog is intended to keep readers up to date with all qui tam related news and to provide commentary when warranted.  This blog also contains an array of laws and regulations concerning qui tam set out in an easy to read format.

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Kickbacks in Medical School? Take a Look at New Jersey’s State Medical School

by Nolan and Auerbach on November 21, 2006

Two doctors are being fired and the pay of at least eight others are being reduced in the wake of a federal monitor’s charges that the medical school has been paying kickbacks to cardiologists resulting in bilking Medicare and Medicaid out of tens of millions of dollars. The federal monitor said that the school’s top officials were complicit in the scheme and directly accused the interim university president, Bruce C. Vladeck of “trying to rebut, refute and bury” information. Vladeck released a letter responding to the report which included instructions to the dean of the medical school to fire or reduce the pay of 10 of the 18 physicians named in the monitor’s report. The kickback accusations are the latest in a line of accusations which caused investigators, after reading an article in a New Jersey legal publication which detailed a $2.2 million settlement by the school to a whistleblower, the former chief of the division of cardiology, who had warned the school that he feared these arrangements were probably illegal and to look further into the matter.

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