Depending on inflection, the term “criminal lawyer” can mean one of two things. “Criminal doctor” has only one meaning. These four criminal doctors are scheduled to be sentenced in July.
Kickback
“Free With Purchase” May Sell Cosmetics, but “Free with Referral” Is a Bad Marketing Idea
The coronavirus has closed their office doors, but the U.S. Department of Justice is still prosecuting healthcare crimes and extracting painful settlements.
Sutter Health and Surgeons Settle Whistleblower’s Kickback Allegations for $31M – Success in Motion
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.
Free Stay Out of Jail Pass
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.
Compound Drugs: Miracle Cure or Kickback Lure? – Medical Group Minute
Compounded drugs are valid treatment. Prescribing them is legal. However, accepting (or paying) kickbacks to prescribe them is a crime.
Compound Drugs: Miracle Cure or Kickback Lure? – Podcast
Compounded drugs are valid treatment. Prescribing them is legal. However, accepting (or paying) kickbacks to prescribe them is a crime.
How to Convict Yourself of Violating the Anti-Kickback Statute
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!
I doubt that Sir Walter Scott was envisioning the future of American healthcare when he wrote those lines in his epic poem Marmion.
Four Doctors, $150 Million, and 6.6 Million Doses of Opioids. What Could Go Wrong?
You’d have to be high to think you could get away with it.
Compound Drugs: Miracle Cure or Kickback Lure?
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.
Anesthesia Company Model Arrangement Fuels $1.718 Million Dollar FCA Settlement by a Surgeon and a Separate Guilty Plea by Another Doctor Defendant – Medical Group Minute
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.