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…
What appears to the unknowing and unsuspecting to be a normal day-to-day business transaction is really something quite different.
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.
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.
There are tremendous opportunities in the market, opportunities that you can exploit.
Conflicts of interest. Everyone’s talking about them. Do you have one? They’re apparently bad. Or are they?
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…
Alchemists struggled without success for centuries attempting to turn lead into gold.
Alchemists struggled without success for centuries attempting to turn lead into gold.
Ride along with Mark as he discusses why medical groups shoot themselves in the compliance foot by shooting the messenger.