Specialty practices consolidate: new litigation emerges. Boman v. Southeast Medical Services Group

This case is instructive in that it highlights a trend to use the Federal health care statutes in furtherance of a broad array of lawsuits. While the statutes were intended principally to protect the Medicare and Medicaid programs, the statutes are increasingly used to remedy a plethora of conduct. Here, the case is also helpful in that it does not dismiss or downplay the use of the Anti-Kickback Statute for such purpose. Rather, the court simply stated that the practice did not violate the Anti-Kickback Statute.