The Department of Justice just announced more than six million dollars in settlements with a former lab CEO, seven marketers, and two physicians. Their alleged wrong? Turning the concept of the “Management Services Organization” into a pay-to-play operation.
A $500M medical directorship fraud case exposes how physicians can be exploited. Protect your practice from legal and financial fallout.
Out of state. Still billing for in-person care.
A physician submitted claims while vacationing in Hawaii—and now faces criminal sentencing and a $500k civil payout.
The majority of healthcare fraud schemes center on fraud perpetrated by physicians, but what about schemes orchestrated to victimize physicians?
It’s been said that people read published lists of disciplined fellow professionals out of a sense of schadenfreude, the pleasure derived from another’s misfortune.
If you thought health care fraud required medical knowledge, think again.
Is the False Claims Act’s whistleblower provision illegal?
What if someone blows the whistle but it makes no sound?
Certifying to Medicare that you’re here when you’re really there is a ticket to nowhere, or maybe to jail.
Telehealth can be used to vastly improve patients’ access to medical care. At the same time, it can be used to vastly improve criminals’ access to Medicare dollars. It shouldn’t be that difficult for physicians to assess the bona fides of their proposed participation in a telehealth “business model” when the ones doing the proposing are telemarketers.