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The Federal Anti-Kickback Statute

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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
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