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Article: New Case Adopts "Common Sense" Approach To Academic Medical Center Stark Exception.
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- May 6, 2008
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On April 8, 2008, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky dismissed a multimillion-dollar claim in a whistleblower lawsuit against the University of Louisville Medical School, the Kosair Children's Hospital and several private physicians with medical school faculty appointments. The case, U.S. ex rel Villafane v. Solinger (W.D. Ky. 2008), was brought under the federal False Claims Act by a former faculty physician and his practice group, alleging that the financial arrangements between the hospital, medical school, and physicians were improper. The Court dismissed the False Claims Act allegations after almost five years of litigation.