Remind yourself that the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) prohibits offering, paying, soliciting, or receiving remuneration to induce referrals of items or services covered by Medicare, TRICARE, and other federally funded programs.
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Compound Drugs: Miracle Cure or Kickback Lure? – Medical Group Minute
Compounded drugs are valid treatment. Prescribing them is legal. However, accepting (or paying) kickbacks to prescribe them is a crime.
Compound Drugs: Miracle Cure or Kickback Lure? – Podcast
Compounded drugs are valid treatment. Prescribing them is legal. However, accepting (or paying) kickbacks to prescribe them is a crime.
Compound Drugs: Miracle Cure or Kickback Lure?
It’s the middle ground between light and shadow, between medical science and stupidity, and it lies between the pit of man’s desires and the summit of his bank account. This is the dimension of disintegration. It’s an area which we call the Indictment Zone.
Anesthesia Company Model Arrangement Fuels $1.718 Million Dollar FCA Settlement by a Surgeon and a Separate Guilty Plea by Another Doctor Defendant – Medical Group Minute
In a recent set of go-rounds with the Department of Justice, the so-called company model of anesthesia services took a major hit: Jonathan Daitch, M.D., just agreed to a $1.718 million civil settlement and Michael Frey, M.D., plead guilty in a criminal prosecution.
Tenet to Pay $66-Plus Million to Settle FCA Suit Involving Company Model of Anesthesia Services
Tenet Healthcare Corporation’s most recent quarterly report indicates that it’s reached an agreement in principle with the United States Department of Justice to settle a whistleblower suit.
380 Individuals Charged in Massive Fake Cancer Screening Manhunt
Telemedicine is the future.
Fraudulent telemedicine is apparently already here.
Is anyone actually shocked?
I Can See Clearly Now. Ophthalmology Group Settles Fraud Claim.
Ah, hindsight. It’s always 20/20.
Arguably, a Southern California ophthalmology group should have had its compliance eyes checked a few years ago.
A Not So Love Triangle: When PE Met AKS Who Met Stark
It’s not quite when Harry Met Sally. As you certainly know, there’s been a flood of investor money, notably private equity money, it into many medical specialties over the last decade. Depending on what specialty you’re in, private equity investment is just beginning to ramp up. For example, I’m seeing an uptick in deals in…
Fraud on Physicians in the ASC Setting – Podcast
As more physicians rush to invest in ASCs, unscrupulous facility promoters/managers scheme to separate physician investors from their money.