{"id":14379,"date":"2019-10-29T10:27:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T14:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14379"},"modified":"2019-10-29T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T14:29:26","slug":"14379","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14379","title":{"rendered":"Settlement in Medicare kickback scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To settle allegations of enabling Medicare kickbacks, the Chronic Disease Fund, Inc. (CDF), and Patient Access Network Foundation (PANF) will pay a combined $6 million. The government\u2019s allegations made it plan that CDF and PANF functioned not as independent charities, but as pass-throughs for specific pharmaceutical companies to pay kickbacks to Medicare patients taking their drugs, in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute that bans drug makers and third party co-pay foundations from paying any remuneration to induce Medicare patients to purchase the companies drugs. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthleadersmedia.com\/foundations-pay-6m-settle-allegations-enabling-medicare-kickbacks\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8964\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To settle allegations of enabling Medicare kickbacks, the Chronic Disease Fund, Inc. (CDF), and Patient Access Network Foundation (PANF) will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14383,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379\/revisions\/14383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}