Reflection On The Anti-Kickback Statue

In the past 10 weeks, I have learned an enormous amount of knowledge regarding healthcare policy and law. The most surprising piece of information I have learned was the Anti-Kickback Statue. This is a criminal statute that prohibits the exchange of anything of value, in order to persuade referrals of patients to certain physicians. In my opinion, I never knew this was an actual law. I also did not know how serious the federal government was when it came to this law. In other words, the physicians could be fined close to 50 thousand dollars or spend time in jail. Just by giving another physician any sort of gift could be considered persuasion. I do think this law may be a little overboard because some physicians are friends and may want