Unfortunately, pain cream scams often spread to physicians, sometimes even to hospital-based physicians looking to pick up a little (well, actually, a lot) of cash on the side.
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A physician has been indicted for his role in a compound pharmacy prescription scam that included disguised kickbacks. Lots of lessons here.
With lots of money at play, it’s not hard to see why the government is motivated to investigate and prosecute in order to obtain huge fines and the benefit of the forfeiture millions of dollars.
With lots of money at play, it’s not hard to see why the government is motivated to investigate and prosecute in order to obtain huge fines and the benefit of the forfeiture millions of dollars.
It’s a beautiful day. That is, unless you’re looking at it through the bars of federal prison, like the guy who compounded his life by compounding pain creams.
Take a ride with Mark as he discusses the latest compound medicine kickback scheme to result in prison time.
Compounding pharmaceuticals, specific drugs for specific patients, offers tremendous benefit. The problems arise when the benefit is for the prescribing physician.
Oh what a tangled web they weave; multiple professionals caught up marketing an ineffective medicine in return for disguised kickbacks.
If the future of surgery is medicine, then the future of medicines is compounding, the individualization of dosages and drug combinations.
Compounding pharmaceuticals, specific drugs for specific patients, offers tremendous benefit. The problems arise when the benefit is for the prescribing physician. Then, we’re dealing with analyses under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), the Stark Law, and their state law counterparts.
