Despite its central importance to the application of the federal anti-kickback statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b) (AKS), the term “refer” is not defined by statute or regulation, and it has seldom been ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has expanded the definition of “referral” under the Anti-Kickback Statute, causing some provider arrangements that were once safe to now implicate the ...
On February 10, 2015, in United States v. Patel (Case No. 14-2607), the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a physician makes a “referral” within the meaning of the federal health care ...