Is More Medicare Fraud Legislation on the Way?

(September 15, 2010): Notably, on September 14th, members of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee introduced legislation cited as “Strengthening Medicare Anti-Fraud Measures Act of 2010″  which would expand current permissive exclusion provisions to permit HHS-OIG to exclude owners, officers and managers of companies that are convicted of health care fraud.  The proposed legislation appears to be quite broad and arguably could result in an officer being excluded from participation in Federal Health Benefits programs even if he was no longer working at the company when it convicted of the crime, as long as the officer was at the company when the wrongful conduct occurred.   It could also be used to go after parent companies of subordinate enterprises that are convicted of health care fraud.

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