Two panels explore examples of fruitful collaboration between, and across, higher education organizations. Panel 1: Panel members discuss how Lehigh's instructional technologists use an effective, team-based approach to evaluate new technologies and their potential as academic applications. Panel 2: Members of The Boston Consortium's IT Training Group discuss how trustful relationships enabled innovative collaboration between schools, resulting in improved IT learning services at the local level.
In United States ex rel. Quirk v. Madonna Towers, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that the failure of a skilled nursing facility's executives to seek a legal opinion regarding a billing practice they considered valid did not meet the definition of knowingly presenting a false claim for payment to the federal government under the False Claims Act (FCA). Alleging that the facility that provided care to his aunt fraudulently submitted claims to Medicare for services provided free of charge, the appellant brought this case qui tam on behalf of the federal government under the FCA.The FCA was passed by the legislature in an effort to punish and deter fraud against the federal government. It provides financial incentives for private individuals to come forward with information about fraudulent activity.
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