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A Sight for Sore Eyes: Sixth Circuit Rejects Government’s Expansive AKS and FCA Theories in Ophthalmologist Dispute

Last week, the Sixth Circuit closed two paths the government and relators have tried to take to expand liability for medical providers under the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act: the meaning of “remuneration” under the AKS and the causation standard for AKS-based FCA claims.

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