Now that they’ve been sentenced to prison, I can reveal the fate of the healthcare power couple, Alexandra Gehrke and her husband, Jeffrey King, whose wound care graft graft put close to $615,000,000 in their pockets, albeit temporarily.
Fraud on Fridays: Deceit Was in His Genes
Perhaps he should have genetically tested himself for the propensity to commit fraud.
Hospitals and the Return of the Company Town
Are hospitals becoming modern company towns for physicians? Explore the parallels, risks, and emerging alternatives for independence.
Fraud on Fridays: Upcoding to Infinity and Beyond
If we could call it upcoding, it would be an understatement to call it upcoding to infinity.
Cognitive Biases and Contracting
When you’re negotiating for any agreement, any deal, especially one that is creating an ongoing relationship, which is the hot molten center of services agreements such as exclusive contracts, you not only want to, but you need to, play to human cognitive biases in establishing that relationship.
Fraud on Fridays: Fraud on Physicians in the ASC Setting
When you think about fraud at an ASC, you tend to think about fraud on payers, from Medicare to well, Blue Cross. You know, cases that never happened, patients who didn’t suffer from any medical issue, and the like. But what about fraud on physicians at an ASC? Because physicians hardly think about it, it…
Supermodel Your Way to Healthcare Industry Success
Few doubt that things need fixing in healthcare. But many, from DIYer docs to industry leaders, suffer from being inside an echo chamber.
Fraud on Fridays: $10.6 Billion – Does Crime Pay?
In a healthcare billing and payment system that’s so complex, it’s sad to say that criminals can stay a few steps ahead of the Feds. With $10.6 billion in bogus billing, some cutouts got caught, but the masterminds appear to have escaped with close to $1 billion.
How to Use the Law Before it Uses You.
Some laws derive from morality and others are purely the result of politicking and protectionism.
Fraud on Fridays: The Four Legs of Fraud
The DOJ kicked back when it secured a conviction against compounding pharmacy executive Sam Glover for a six-year drug alteration and misbranding conspiracy involving free flowing prescription forms and, well, racehorses.