In my experience, most kickback schemes are not as brazen as this. They involve fewer numbers of people and, sometimes, behavior that is more easily rationalized by the participants as “sort of legal”.
Healthcare Fraud
Physician Extender Sentenced to Prison for Fraud – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark as he discusses the danger of identity fraud on physicians.
The Other Final Four: Hospital Executives Sentenced to Prison
In my experience, most kickback schemes are not as brazen as this. They involve fewer numbers of people and, sometimes, behavior that is more easily rationalized by the participants as “sort of legal”.
Uncompensated Medical Directorship Leads to $3.2 Million False Claims Act Settlement – Podcast
You may have seen their websites: Anesthesia “practice management companies” that advertise “no stipends!” to obtain facility contracts.
$2.6 Billion Collected by Feds From Compliance Cheats. ROI Makes Warren Buffett Look Like an Amateur.
Federal government collects $2.6 Billion stemming from compliance violations in 967 criminal healthcare fraud investigations from 2015-2017.
Uncompensated Medical Directorship Leads to $3.2 Million False Claims Act Settlement
You may have seen their websites: Anesthesia “practice management companies” that advertise “no stipends!” to obtain facility contracts. Or, you may have seen the RPFs, usually drafted by “consultants” or “management companies” (and others specializing in perhaps unknowingly committing federal crimes) who promise the surgeon-owners of ASCs that they’ll get anesthesia groups to provide a plethora…
For Whom the Whistle Blows: Texas County Hospital Settles False Claims Act Suit – Podcast
Once again, this case demonstrates that simple, facial reliance on safe harbors under the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark do not guaranty safety for either hospitals or their physician employees and subcontractors.
For Whom the Whistle Blows: More Debris From the Fate of Fata – Medical Group Minute
The scalpel of surgeon Farid Fata, M.D. continues to cut from beyond the metaphorical grave…
For Whom the Whistle Blows #2: More Debris From the Fate of Fata
The scalpel of surgeon Farid Fata, M.D. continues to cut from beyond the metaphorical grave, i.e., from behind the walls, gates, and concertina wire of the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. In mid-2015, Dr. Fata traded in his scrubs for a prison uniform when he was sentenced to 45 years in jail for a…
For Whom the Whistle Blows: Texas County Hospital Settles False Claims Act Suit
Citizens Medical Center, a county-owned hospital in Victoria, Texas, paid the United States government $21,750,000 to settle, without admitting wrongdoing, a whistleblower suit under the False Claims Act. The whistleblowers, competing physicians, will receive $5,981,250 from the recovery.