Document Type
Case Analysis
Publication Date
2000
Publication Information
1999 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cases 251 (2000).
Abstract
From the Issue
In Fischer, the Supreme Court will resolve a split in the circuits over the question whether a health-care "organization" that receives payments through the Medicare Program in exchange for health-care services provided to individual beneficiaries thereby "receives ... benefits" within the meaning of Section 666(b). If the answer is "yes," then bribes involving the business of such an organization - more precisely, bribes concerning a transaction of the organization worth at least $5,000 - are federal crimes.
Recommended Citation
Richard W. Garnett,
Are Payments to a Hospital for Services Provided Medicare Beneficiaries "Benefits" Under the Federal-Program Bribery Statute?,
1999 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cases 251 (2000)..
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_faculty_scholarship/1895
Comments
Fischer v. United States
Docket No. 99-116
Argument Date: February 22, 2000
From: The Eleventh Circuit
Richard W. Garnett authored the amicus curiae brief filed in this case by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Click here to read the amicus curiae brief.