One of the well-known federal fraud and abuse statutes in the United States is the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, which greatly influences business relationships in the pharmaceutical, healthcare and medical device sectors. This statute is an Anti-Corruption law, which is designed to protect beneficiaries of the federal health care program from money influence on various referral decisions. Thus, this law helps in guarding against an increase in costs, overutilization and poor quality services. However, this law needs some modifications to become more efficient to all the U.S citizens. The lawmakers in the country should take the initiative of amending this bill so as to ensure that they adequately represent the interests of those people who
The Federal Anti-Kickback Statute The Federal Anti-Kickback Statute is a criminal law that prohibits the knowing and willful payment of direct or indirect “remuneration”, to induce or reward patient referrals or the generation of business that involves any service or items payable by the Federal health care programs (e.g., drugs, supplies, or health care services for Medicare or Medicaid patients).[1] Remuneration can incorporate anything of value and can be of any form other than cash, for example travel tours, expenses for lavish hotel stays or immoderate compensation for medical consultations or referrals. In some industries, it is allowed to give compensation or reward to those who refer business. But, in the health care, referral is a
Lera Ramsay Hour 5 District Performance Event The year 1939 wasn’t a good year for anyone. In 1939, France and England declared war on the Axis Powers, Germany, Italy, and Japan, starting World War II. During this time Nazi Concentration Camps formed under Hitler’s command and Japanese Internment Camps formed in America.
On May 10, 1940, Nazi Germany began an immense attack against Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. Defending those countries were soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force, along with the French, Belgian, and Dutch (Allied) armies. The
The first reason why Italy should entered WWII is Benito Mussolini, who just came to power and became the leader of Italy, decided to turn Italy into a new empire like Roman. This is important because Mussolini had his own army and had the ability to attack other countries. He was also the leader of Italy who had right to order all the Italy soldiers to fight. “Following the war, in which he served as a rifleman, Mussolini decided his destiny was to rule Italy as a modern Caesar and re-create the Roman Empire. He forged the paramilitary Fascist movement in 1919-1921, using it to march on Rome, become prime minister, and then to seize dictatorial power (1925-1926).
Statutory law usually enacted by a legislative body. Unlike case law, statutory law is not enacted to resolve a specific factual dispute. However, legislative bodies make rules or laws that apply to society in general. It governs numerous aspects, including traffic, domestic relation, criminal and civil liability, corporate operation, immigration, and homeland security. The most difficult part in researching is locating the proper law when you have a factual situation or issue and trying to find the answer.
Health Care Law: Tort Case Study Carolann Stanek University of Mary Health Care Law: Tort Case Study A sample case study reviewed substandard care that was delivered to Ms. Gardner after having sustained an accident and brought to Bay Hospital for treatment. Dr. Dick, a second-year pediatric resident, was on that day in the ED and provided care for Ms. Gadner. Dr. Moon, is the chief of staff and oversees the credentialing of all physicians at Bay Hospital.
The Family and Medical Leave Act The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993 allows employees who are eligible to take an unpaid leave of absence up to 12 weeks each year from a covered employer for medical conditions that prevent them from performing their job duties or to care for a family member with a health condition (FMLA, n.d.). FMLA allows for prenatal complications, the birth of a child and the adoption or fostering of a child. For an employee to be eligible they must work for the employer at least 12 months and have at least 1,250 hours of work during that previous time (FMLA, n.d.). A private sector employer that employs 50 or more employees within 75 miles of the worksite is a covered employer (FMLA, n.d.).
situations that are way more important. On the other hand, if this situation is left undone, people will feel like nobody cares about what had happened and criminals are just left to live their lives. There will be many displeased people who just want to get justice for their forebearers or even for themselves. While it had been so long that the Holocaust occurred, it is only right that it is all left done and finalized.
The subject of this paper will be to highlight American attitudes towards both German and Italian Americans during the Second World War. By examining the internment of German and Italian Americans as well as American attitudes towards the two minority groups, specifically through American war posters, this paper will address and expose an issue that has largely been exaggerated and neglected up until the late 20th into the 21st Century. The treatment of both Italian and German Americans during the Second World War went unacknowledged for decades until the U.S. Congress passed the “Wartime Violation of Italian American Civil Liberties Act” in October of 1999. This led the way for historians such as Lawrence DiStasi and Stephen Fox to publish material
The Holocaust was a genocide during World War II in which approximately six million Jewish men, women, and children were murdered by Adolf Hitler 's Nazi regime and its collaborators. Some more five million non-jewish people were killed bringing it to about eleven million. Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories. From 1933 to 1945, Jews were regularly killed in a genocide, one of the largest in history, and part of a wider aggregate of acts of oppression and murders of different racial and political groups in Europe by the Nazi regime. Every arm of Germany 's bureaucracy was apart of the logistics and the carrying out of the genocide, turning the Third Reich into "a genocidal state".
After Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles nations of Germany had live miserable lives, because high inflation happened in Germany. Germany made a wrong decision when they had to pay money. Instead of taxing people to give money for the damage to Allies, Germany borrowed a lot of money from other countries. As a result they had to pay more money with a huge debt.
Holocaust in Poland The Holocaust, also known as Shoah, was a genocide officially authorized and executed by the Third Reich during World War II. The Holocaust in German-occupied Poland involved the implementation of German policy of systematic and mostly effective annihilation of the indigenous Polish-Jewish population. Persecution of the Jews in Poland began immediately after the German invasion, which took place in 1939, particularly in urban areas. After the German attack on the Soviet sites in eastern Poland in June 1941, German police units, and special-task Einsatzgruppen, operated behind the front lines to shoot Himmler’s “dangerous elements” independently of the army, which consist of Jews and political opponents of Nazism.
Breanna Ramirez Mr.Pantoja, Mrs.Ryglicki English 4 11 May 2016 Abortion: Is it Right or Wrong? How would you feel if someone wanted take your life? Imagine the feeling of having a mother that does not want you even before you are born. In 1821 Connecticut was the first state to pass the abortion law in the United States.
Tort Law and the right to Privacy In order for a claim to be tortuous in liability in negligence to be actionable, primarily, certain fundamental pre-requisites need to be established in each respectively. The requirements of the modern tort negligence were stated by Lord Wright in, Lochgelly and Coal Co ltd Vs McMullan, as being, the existence of a duty of care owned by the defendant to the claimant, a breach of duty, and damage or injury caused by that breach of duty (2013). A tort is a wrong or injury caused by an individual for which the victim can seek compensation. Some torts are also crime, and the person committing the tort can be prosecuted in criminal court.
