Health Care Reform Places Affirmative Duty on Providers to Refund Overpayments from Federal Health Care Programs
Health care reform raises many difficult issues for health care providers. Risks that now accompany a failure to make timely repayment of overpayments place particularly difficult burdens upon providers. Although health care reform presents numerous challenges, this alert will only address issues associated with important changes to the “reverse false claim” provisions of the False Claims Act that impact health care providers and the mandated compliance programs.