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News/Compliance & Enforcement/Court Agrees With DOJ That FMV Payments Can Be Kickbacks
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Court Agrees With DOJ That FMV Payments Can Be Kickbacks

A district court in the Central District of California has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss a qui tam suit, holding that “even some fair-market-value payments will qualify as illegal kickbacks.” The relator argued that the defendant offered kickbacks in various forms to reward physicians for using devices it manufactured.

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