Company: GHRS
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form Type: 20-F/A
Source: 0001140361-25-027850
Chunk: 207

Company: GH Research PLC
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form: 20-F/A
Chunk 207
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” the submission of false or fraudulent claims. The FCA also permits a private individual acting as a “whistleblower” to bring qui tam actions on behalf of the federal government alleging violations of the FCA   
 and to share in any monetary recovery. When an entity is determined to have violated the FCA, the government may impose civil fines and penalties for each false claim, plus treble damages, and exclude the entity from participation  
 in Medicare, Medicaid and other federal healthcare programs;                                                                                                                                                                            |

| • | The federal civil monetary penalties laws, which impose civil fines for, among other things, the offering or transferring of remuneration, which includes, without limitation, any transfer of items or services for free or for less 
 than fair market value (with limited exceptions), to a Medicare or Medicaid beneficiary that the person knows or should know is likely to influence the beneficiary’s selection of a particular provider, practitioner or supplier of 
 items or services reimbursable by a federal or state healthcare program;                                                                                                                                                              |

| • | The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, which created additional federal criminal liability for knowingly and willfully executing, or attempting to execute, a scheme to defraud any         
 healthcare benefit program, including both public and private third-party payors, or to obtain, by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises, any of the money or property owned by, or under the custody or  
 control of, any healthcare benefit program, regardless of the payor (i.e., public or private) and knowingly and willfully falsifying, concealing or covering up by any trick or device a material fact or making any materially false,  
 fictitious or fraudulent statements or representations, or making or using any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or entry in connection with the delivery 
 of, or payment for, healthcare benefits, items or services relating to healthcare matters. Similar to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, a person or entity does not need to have actual knowledge of the statute or specific intent to 
 violate it in order to have committed a violation;                                                                                                                                                                                      |

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| • | HIPAA, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009, or HITECH, and its respective implementing regulations, which imposes, among other things, certain requirements on covered          
 entities, including certain covered healthcare providers, health plans and healthcare clearinghouses