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This Court Decision Is Not A 'Free Pass'

Published on Fri Oct 18, 2019

The recent court decision in the AseraCare case is good news, but providers shouldn’t get a false sense of security from it, legal experts warn. Reminder: The U.S. District Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled that “a mere difference of reasonable physicians’ opinions on a terminal patient’s prognosis will not constitute falsity under the False Claims Act,” hospice [...]
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