HIPAA fines aren’t just given for breaches of HIPAA policy but for potential violations as well.
Category: Compliance
What do you get when you cross a compliance officer with a whistleblower?
Tenet Healthcare Corporation’s most recent quarterly report (for the period ended 9/30/19) indicates that it's reached an agreement in principle with the United States Department of Justice to settle a whistleblower suit involving, among other serious allegations, that it participated in a so-called "company model of anesthesia services" scheme.
Almost every day, the story repeats itself. Another bankrupt or closed or closing hospital. Often the infected facility is rural. But sometimes it's not.
Ah, hindsight. It's always 20/20.
It’s not quite when Harry Met Sally.
When most people think of kickback schemes in the healthcare context, they immediately go to notions of payments to physicians for referrals.
Alchemists struggled without success for centuries attempting to turn lead into gold.
Conflicts of interest. Everyone’s talking about them. Do you have one? They’re apparently bad. Or are they?
If you’re a physician, it’s all too likely that you’re uncertain about the future, feel the pressure of an all too real governmentally imposed ceiling on your income, and have even less control than ever over your time.
