Stark Law/Anti-Kickback Statutes

United Therapeutics Corporation (UT), based in Maryland, has just agreed to settle Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act allegations for $210 million. The drug maker has also entered into a five-year corporate integrity agreement with the Department of Health and...

After Danish multinational pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk settled claims that it marketed drugs using a "white coat" sales scam, global pharmaceutical competitor Eli Lilly is facing similar charges. A recently unsealed whistleblower lawsuit alleges that Lilly ran...

A Texas cancer centers chain with locations across the Southwest has been embroiled in a years-long legal dispute with an Arkansas competitor. Landmark Cancer Center has locations in San Antonio, Dallas, Plano and other spots in Texas.Its Fayetteville facility is...

Compounding pharmacies can be critical bridges between doctors and patients. The pharmacies make drugs prescribed by physicians for patients with very specific needs that can't be met by commercially available prescriptions. A compounding pharmacy custom-makes drugs...

When you first heard of Stark Law, it is possible that you, like many others, assumed it referred to a single statute. Instead, it refers to a whole set of federal laws that regulate physician referrals for Medicare and Medicaid patients. As you likely know, Stark Law...

News reports state that five more New York doctors have admitted to officials that they took bribes in exchange for test referrals in an operation allegedly run by a New Jersey company. Two of the physicians are from Staten Island; two from Wayne and one from Franklin...

Stark Law is a complex set of rules that has the main purpose of preventing physician self-referrals. More specifically, the rules attempt to prevent physicians from referring a Medicare or Medicaid patient to a medical facility that the physician (or the physician's...