Recovering fraudulent claims for Australian federal expenditure on pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

The false claims act and the eroding scienter in healthcare fraud litigation.

This article addresses the federal government's expansive methods in tackling healthcare fraud, particularly in misapplying the False Claims Act. Although tasked with the obligation to curtail the fraudulent submission of Medicare & Medicaid claims, the U.S. government must rein in the current trend to utilize the False Claims Act against smaller medical providers. As the Act's original focus h...

Buckman extended: federal preemption of state fraud-on-the-FDA statutes.

A number of states have enacted statutes that provide protection to drug manufacturers in product liability actions. Additionally, several of these states have enacted "fraud-on-the-FDA" statutory provisions, which remove statutory protection afforded to drug manufacturers in product liability actions if plaintiffs can provide evidence that the drug manufacturer made misrepresentations to the F...

Does Government subsidy for costs of medical and pharmaceutical services result in higher service utilization by older widowed women in Australia?

BACKGROUND In Australia, Medicare, the national health insurance system which includes the Medical Benefits Scheme (MBS) and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), provides partial coverage for most medical services and pharmaceuticals. For war widows, the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) covers almost the entire cost of their health care. The objective of this study was to test whether war...

FTC Not Required to Rely on Extrinsic Evidence to Determine Fraudulent Implied Claims in Advertising

Public Expenditure and Economic Growth in Nigeria (A Granger Causality Approach) 1983-2012

This paper examines the impact of government expenditure on the Nigerian economy for the period 1983 - 2012. The government expenditure components used as the explanatory variables in the model are: expenditures on Health, Education, Defense, Agriculture and Transportation and Communication. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was used as a parameter for measuring economic growth. In order to esta...