Last week, the California Insurance Commissioner and the Orange County District Attorney shut down a $40 million fraudulent medical billing and kickback operation by filing criminal charges against 21 doctors plus 5 others: pharmacists and purported “medical group management company” owners. Involved are Tanya Moreland King and her husband Christopher King, the owners of medical…
It was 9:00 p.m. The restaurant was clearing out. I was eating alone after returning to the hotel following a meeting. Then I overheard…
Join Mark as he discusses why compliance with an AKS safe harbor does not protect you from prosecution.
Office-based specialists, from ENT’s to urologists, often enter into suite sharing arrangements. No problem! That is, until they make it one.
A recent article by Joseph Walker in the Saturday/Sunday, Feb. 4-5, 2017, issue of The Wall Street Journal, sheds light on the marketing of opioids, the payment of kickbacks, and the high profits that can be made via their sale through physician owned pharmacies. A review of the related indictment reveals even more. The context…
The scalpel of surgeon Farid Fata, M.D. continues to cut from beyond the metaphorical grave…
The scalpel of surgeon Farid Fata, M.D. continues to cut from beyond the metaphorical grave, i.e., from behind the walls, gates, and concertina wire of the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. In mid-2015, Dr. Fata traded in his scrubs for a prison uniform when he was sentenced to 45 years in jail for a…
It was 9:00 p.m. The restaurant was clearing out. I was eating alone after returning to the hotel following a meeting.
Every once in while I get someone who asks me the following type of question: “Can you give me the name of one person who has gone to jail for violating the federal Anti-Kickback Statute in the context of . . . ” and then they go and describe some very specific fact situation, for…
It was 9:00 p.m. The restaurant was clearing out. I was eating alone after returning to the hotel following a meeting. There he was at a table seventeen feet away, talking to another man. At first I thought that they were on a date, but then I realized that “G” was trying to charm “X”…