United States v. William Hancock and Paul A. Palombi

How courts have described this case

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• identifying the \evils Congress sought to prevent by enacting the kickback statutes\ to include the \potential for increased costs to the Medicare- Medicaid system and misapplication of federal funds\
• identifying the \evils Congress sought to prevent by enacting the kickback statutes\ to include the \potential for increased costs to the Medicare-Medicaid system and misapplication of federal funds\
• rejecting reasoning in Porter and holding that broad interpretation of statute was appropriate
• “the defendants were able to open up or control the payment of federal funds to Chem-Teeh by sending Medicare or Medicaid patients tissue specimens to Chem-Tech.... ”
• “we believe that the term kickback has a commonly understood meaning,” and “[t]he term is commonly used and understood to include ‘a percentage payment . . . for granting assistance by one in a position to open up or control a source of income,’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).