Perhaps you’ve carefully structured your medical group’s relationships with hospitals, referral sources, and other influencers. But did you pay attention to what’s going on inside your practice’s own house?
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Cleveland Clinic Unit Pays $21.25 Million to Resolve Kickback Case – Podcast
As always in these types of cases, which are civil actions, the settlement does not involve any admission that the allegations were true.
“Covid Ate My Homework” Won’t Keep You Out of Jail – Podcast
Billing for unnecessary tests and procedures, even on a small scale, is particularly egregious because of the risk inherent to the victim patients, let alone the financial fraud on payors.
CMS Opines That Stark Isn’t That Stark – Advisory Opinion Guidance on a Parent-Subsidiary Practice Model That’s Still a Single Group Practice – Podcast
Under the regulations a group practice must consist of a single legal entity operating primarily for the purpose of being a physician group practice.
Does Your Group’s Compensation Plan Measure Up? – Podcast
What if you were running a restaurant instead of a medical group? Let’s say you decide to measure and reward on the basis of the time a waiter or waitress takes to picks up food in the kitchen and deliver it to the table…
Felonious Forest Park Physicians Freighted Off To Federal Prison – Podcast
One thing is for certain, it will be no more walk in the park for the seven defendants convicted for their roles in a bribe and kickback scheme related to referring patients to Forest Park Hospital, a now defunct chain of Texas facilities.
What Every Physician Needs to Know About a California Anesthesia Group’s Bankruptcy – Podcast
he tip of the hat to T.S. Eliot, the world for Community Regional Anesthesia Medical Group (CRAMG) ended on June 16, 2021, not with a bang but a whimper.
UnitedHealth Pushing Business to ASCs and Outpatient Imaging – Podcast
cry about it, the bottom line is the same: they are cutting costs by moving all cases that can be moved out of the hospital out of the hospital. Where does that leave you?
What Are You Dreaming? – Podcast
Quoting from his speech on August 28, 1963, King stated, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!”
Are You Sure You’re Insured for a Cyber-Attack? – Podcast
How prepared are you if, despite the prophylactic precautions taken by your in-house team, taken by your outside coding and billing provider, and by your EHR vendor, your defenses are breached?