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…
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…
Your compliance system has a leak.
Obamacare mandates that physicians participating in Medicare or Medicaid have operating compliance programs. Turn the mandate into a strategic advantage.
The so-called “Company Model” of providing anesthesia services at an ASC presents serious kickback concerns. But the problem is far greater than simply anesthesia deals.