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Two California urologists, Dr. Aytac Apaydin and Dr. Stephen Worsham, have agreed to pay $1.085 million based on allegations of violating the False Claim Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute, and Stark Law, which prohibits physician self-referral, between April 2008 and December 2014. Apaydin and Worsham currently own and run Salinas Valley…

Last week, we looked at the recoveries made on behalf of the federal government using the False Claims Act (“FCA”) in 2015.  While informative, those numbers don’t tell the whole story.  Many states have their own versions of the FCA.  These statutes are particularly important in the Medicaid fraud arena…