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Article: Grassley presses CMS on anti-kickback enforcement.(Charles grassley, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
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- Compliance Hotline
- Article date:
- July 8, 2002
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Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) is investigating reports from qui tam attorneys who claim the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is putting health care fraud prosecutions on the back burner. Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee and author of the amendments that essentially resurrected the False Claims Act in the mid-1980s, is specifically targeting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Tom Scully and the DOJ for lax enforcement of False Claims Act anti-kickback cases.
In a June 25 letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and the DOJ, Grassley wrote that recent comments by Scully raise concerns ...