When we talk about joint ventures in healthcare, we tend to think of illegality, as in “suspect joint venture,” the pejorative term crafted by the OIG.
Tag: compliance
How Not to Deal with Performance Problems
As Fox News reports, a Minnesota man and his 6 and 9 year old children were asked to get off a Southwest Airlines flight and were not allowed back on the plane until he deleted an uncomplimentary tweet about a gate agent.
What Are the Standard Hospital Complaints?
When things begin to go awry between hospitals and contracted medical groups, a common set of complaints arise.
Technology, Rules and Compliance – Podcast
The indiscriminate use technology, is akin to the adoption and enforcement of rules.
Technology, Rules and Compliance
Technology is neither inherently good nor inherently bad. It’s good only if it does something beneficial – makes things faster, easier, cheaper, or better. And then, of course, the question is faster, easier, cheaper or better for whom? I recently went with my son to a trendy burger place in Westwood, adjacent to UCLA. For…
Wringing Profit From Physician Group Compliance: Operational Compliance – Podcast
Physician groups can profit from their compliance efforts.
Wringing Profit From Physician Group Compliance: Operational Compliance
As you may know, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, imposes a requirement – a mandatory requirement — that physician groups adopt compliance programs. These programs are not simply plans that you document, toss into a notebook and keep on a shelf – they must be living breathing programs revisited on an ongoing…
Jurassic Park and PHI – Leaks Are Inevitable
In the book, Jurassic Park, and in the movie of the same name, it quickly becomes obvious that despite absolute belief and assurance that the system is closed, there is always the chance of a leak. Shift from dinosaurs on an island to your patients’ protected health information, or “PHI,” which you probably believe to…
Jurassic Park and PHI – Leaks Are Inevitable – Podcast
Your compliance system has a leak.
How to Profit From Mandatory Compliance Programs – Podcast
Obamacare mandates that physicians participating in Medicare or Medicaid have operating compliance programs. Turn the mandate into a strategic advantage.