Ah, hindsight. It’s always 20/20.
Arguably, a Southern California ophthalmology group should have had its compliance eyes checked a few years ago.
Compliance
Tastes Like Chicken. Smells Like Fraud – Podcast
What appears to the unknowing and unsuspecting to be a normal day-to-day business transaction is really something quite different.
Conflicts of Interest: Do You Have One? – Medical Group Minute
Everyone’s talking about them. They’re apparently bad. Or are they?
A Not So Love Triangle: When PE Met AKS Who Met Stark
It’s not quite when Harry Met Sally. As you certainly know, there’s been a flood of investor money, notably private equity money, it into many medical specialties over the last decade. Depending on what specialty you’re in, private equity investment is just beginning to ramp up. For example, I’m seeing an uptick in deals in…
Tastes Like Chicken. Smells Like Fraud. – Medical Group Minute
What appears to the unknowing and unsuspecting to be a normal day-to-day business transaction is really something quite different.
Does More Financial Pressure on Hospitals Signal the Return of Questionable Medical Directorships? – Podcast
In the Wild West days of the 1980s and 90s, it wasn’t uncommon to see as many medical directors receiving stipends from a hospital as there are aspirins in a Costco-size bottle.
What You Need to Know About the High Cost of 15 Minutes of Fame, HIPAA Edition – Medical Group Minute
A little bit more than 15 minutes of fame, just cost three Boston area hospitals, Boston Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital, a collective $999,000.
“But Everyone’s Doing It!!” Not a Great Defense to Compliance Violations – Medical Group Minute
There are tremendous opportunities in the market, opportunities that you can exploit.
Conflicts of Interest: Do You Have One? – Podcast
Conflicts of interest. Everyone’s talking about them. Do you have one? They’re apparently bad. Or are they?
Tastes Like Chicken. Smells Like Fraud.
When most people think of kickback schemes in the healthcare context, they immediately go to notions of payments to physicians for referrals. Now, that’s not an unwarranted assumption because, unfortunately, much of the history of the application of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute involves physician-referral issues. Within large medical groups, and similarly within physician-owned facilities such…