{"id":109,"date":"2025-02-25T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/?p=109"},"modified":"2025-03-05T14:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T18:57:06","slug":"first-circuit-embraces-more-restrictive-view-of-fca-kickback-enforcement-provision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/2025\/02\/25\/first-circuit-embraces-more-restrictive-view-of-fca-kickback-enforcement-provision\/","title":{"rendered":"First Circuit Embraces More Restrictive View of FCA Kickback Enforcement Provision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit\u2019s opinion in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca1.uscourts.gov\/sites\/ca1\/files\/opnfiles\/23-2086P-01A.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>United States v. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0has sharpened the circuit split for demonstrating the effect of a kickback on healthcare decisions under the False Claims Act (FCA). The\u00a0<em>Regeneron\u00a0<\/em>court held that an FCA claim based on an alleged violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) requires demonstrating that an alleged unlawful kickback was the \u201cbut-for\u201d cause of a submitted claim. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/first_circuit_embraces_more_restrictive_false_claims_act_kickback_enforcement_provision_0225.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/first_circuit_embraces_more_restrictive_false_claims_act_kickback_enforcement_provision_0225.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full <em>Alert <\/em>on the Duane Morris website. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit\u2019s opinion in\u00a0United States v. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.\u00a0has sharpened the circuit split for demonstrating the effect of a kickback on healthcare decisions under the False Claims Act (FCA). The\u00a0Regeneron\u00a0court held that an FCA claim based on an alleged violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) requires demonstrating &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/2025\/02\/25\/first-circuit-embraces-more-restrictive-view-of-fca-kickback-enforcement-provision\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Circuit Embraces More Restrictive View of FCA Kickback Enforcement Provision&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,13,12,15],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-antikickback","tag-chris-casey","tag-dan-walworth","tag-healthcare"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}