Collectively the Tenet controlled entities will pay $60.86 million to the United States, $5 million to the State of Oklahoma, and $206,000 to the State of Texas.
Category: Kickback
Double your felony, Double your sums. Oops we got caught, Now we're jailhouse bums.
Perhaps the target wasn't Day-Glo orange, but the wound was life changing, if not life threatening.
The coronavirus has closed their office doors, but the U.S. Department of Justice is still prosecuting healthcare crimes and extracting painful settlements.
Ride along with Mark as he discusses the settlement by Sutter Health and a cardiac surgery group involving allegations that exclusive contracts, coverage stipends, and medical director fees were kickbacks to reward referrals. Avoid the same fate.
Remind yourself that the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) prohibits offering, paying, soliciting, or receiving remuneration to induce referrals of items or services covered by Medicare, TRICARE, and other federally funded programs.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!
You’d have to be high to think you could get away with it.
It’s the middle ground between light and shadow, between medical science and stupidity, and it lies between the pit of man's desires and the summit of his bank account. This is the dimension of disintegration. It’s an area which we call the Indictment Zone.
In a recent set of go-rounds with the Department of Justice, the so-called company model of anesthesia services took a major hit: Jonathan Daitch, M.D., just agreed to a $1.718 million civil settlement and Michael Frey, M.D., plead guilty in a criminal prosecution.
