Compliance

Tastes Like Chicken. Smells Like Fraud.

When most people think of kickback schemes in the healthcare context, they immediately go to notions of payments to physicians for referrals. Now, that’s not an unwarranted assumption because, unfortunately, much of the history of the application of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute involves physician-referral issues. Within large medical groups, and similarly within physician-owned facilities such […]

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Competing

What’s the Downside Risk for Hospital Executives?

A physician makes a mistake, commits negligence, and what’s the result? It can be horrific. Malpractice suit. Medical staff discipline. Medical board discipline leading even to loss of licensure. Reputation destroyed. Now ask yourself what happens if a hospital executive, say the CEO of a publicly held hospital chain, commits the equivalent type of error, […]

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