Reform Law Includes Large New Fraud Enforcement Powers, but Many Provisions Are Unclear

By James Gutman, Managing Editor (jgutman@aispub.com)
Some of the least publicized but perhaps most far-reaching provisions of the new health reform law relate to fraud-and-abuse enforcement. The law grants the federal government dramatic new powers — many of them not clearly defined or in partial conflict with other statutes — to pursue both providers and health plans.

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