Structuring a payment or a transaction such that the deal is at fair market value is not the be-all and end-all of AKS compliance.
Tag: bribe
Ride along with Mark as he shares his opinion on the OIG’s revised rules for opinions.
To paraphrase William Shakespeare, a rose by any other name might just be fraud.
Remember, that in cases of this sort, which are civil, not criminal, settlements resolve allegations, do not involve any admission of culpability or guilt...
For example, when is a payment or a lease or some service a kickback?
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.
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In my experience, most kickback schemes are not as brazen as this. They involve fewer numbers of people and, sometimes, behavior that is more easily rationalized by the participants as “sort of legal”.
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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.
Well, the story as told by the Government is a familiar one: They allege that the events were payments to benefit Dr. Asfora and induce him to use Medtronic’s SynchroMed II intrathecal infusion pumps.
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In my experience, most kickback schemes are not as brazen as this. They involve fewer numbers of people and, sometimes, behavior that is more easily rationalized by the participants as “sort of legal”.
