In a move reminiscent of prohibition era crime fighter Eliot Ness, the U.S. Department of Justice recently announced a coordinated enforcement action against 345 alleged healthcare criminals, including over 100 physicians and other licensed (for now) healthcare professionals, in 51 judicial districts.
As I always say, think like a carpenter and measure twice (or even thrice), vetting each deal carefully with healthcare counsel, before cutting once, cutting your own neck, that is.
Remind yourself that, as you watch this today and three weeks from today when you remember to pull out your get out of jail free card, that physicians like you are sitting in their cells today and that you don’t want to join them.
Ride along with Mark as he discusses a kickback case involving a doctor daughter and indicted parents.
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.
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.
Remind yourself that, as you watch this today and three weeks from today when you remember to pull out your get out of jail free card, that physicians like you are sitting in their cells today and that you don’t want to join them.
Learn about the twin healthcare fraud schemes and federal prison sentences surrounding a recent prosecution in Texas.
As I always say, think like a carpenter and measure twice (or even thrice), vetting each deal carefully with healthcare counsel, before cutting once, cutting your own neck, that is.
Perhaps the target wasn’t Day-Glo orange, but the wound was life changing, if not life threatening.