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Compliance | Kickback

FMV is no More Anti-Kickback Compliance than Ground Pepper is Pot Roast

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.

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Medical Group Minute | Videocast

It’s Not Just My Opinion, the OIG Changes the Rules on Opinions – Success in Motion

Ride along with Mark as he shares his opinion on the OIG’s revised rules for opinions.

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Healthcare Fraud | Kickback

What You Need to Know About a Healthcare CEO Headed to Prison in Order to Avoid the Same Fate.

To paraphrase William Shakespeare, a rose by any other name might just be fraud.

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Kickback

Anesthesiologists, ASCs, Referring Physicians, and Alleged Kickbacks Fuel $28 Million Settlement

Remember, that in cases of this sort, which are civil, not criminal, settlements resolve allegations, do not involve any admission of culpability or guilt...

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Compliance

When’s It a Violation of the Law?

For example, when is a payment or a lease or some service a kickback?

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Kickback | Podcast

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.

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Podcast

The Other Final Four: Hospital Executives Sentenced to Prison – Podcast

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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Kickback | Medical Group Minute | Videocast

Felonious Forest Park Physicians Freighted off to Federal Prison – Medical Group Minute

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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Podcast

Surgeon and Controlled Companies Pay $4.5 Million Settlement Months After Medtronic Pays $9.21 Million Tip (Settlement) For Meals at the Surgeon’s Restaurant – Podcast

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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Fraud | Manage Your Practice | Medical Group Minute | Videocast

The Other Final Four: Hospital Executives Sentenced to Prison – Medical Group Minute

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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