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False Claims: The Coordinated Exploitation Of The United States Government By The Healthcare Industry, Grady Mcmichen
False Claims: The Coordinated Exploitation Of The United States Government By The Healthcare Industry, Grady Mcmichen
Journal of Law and Health
The False Claims Act (FCA) has a long-standing history of protecting the United States government from being defrauded by merchants and other parties submitting claims for repayment. Affording Americans who have enrolled in Medicaid and Medicare expansion plans the same protection afforded to the federal government will allow for action to be brought to prevent large hospital networks from engaging in price-fixing behaviors. Implementing this change will have the effect of reducing healthcare prices for all Americans.
Applying the False Claims Act at the price-fixing level will have the largest affect; however, it is still important to iron out procedures …