Even Warren Buffet can’t get you this return: 420% over three years.
And, it’s 100% leveraged. OPM.
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Ride along with Mark as he discusses the more than 420% financial return to the government that’s fueling healthcare compliance investigations . . . and convictions.
How many compliance related crimes have you or your colleagues or employees committed today, whether purposefully or, completely inadvertently? A friend, a former federal prosecutor, recently told me about a book called Three Felonies a Day. The book addresses the fact that, due to the burgeoning number of criminal laws and, even more concerning, regulations […]
Even Warren Buffet can’t get you this return: 420% over three years. And, it’s 100% leveraged. OPM. Well, not OPM as in “other people’s money,” but OPM as in “our public money.” That’s the return on investment that the Feds generated from 2015 to 2017 as a result of coordinated Department of Health and Human Services and Department […]
Criminal and, at least, serious civil, liability lurks in many neat neighborhoods. Create your own neighborhood watch to make sure that it’s not lurking behind your medical group’s otherwise metaphorical neat lawn.
Just like speeding, the chances of getting caught are probably only 1% or 2%. Eventually, though, someone will be pulled over.
I recently attended a continuing legal education seminar concerning some very complex organizational structures for healthcare venture development.
In a Wall Street Journal piece published in last weekend’s Saturday/Sunday Nov. 11-12, 2017, edition, Ezekial Emanuel, M.D. of the University of Pennsylvania and other pursuits, wrote of the “hype of virtual medicine.” In particular, he cited studies that show that virtual medicine and high-tech health gadgets such as Fitbits accomplish nothing in regard to […]
It was a neighborhood like many others. Neat, but not too neat front yards. Newspapers brought in by 8:00 a.m. and maybe by 10:00 a.m. on weekends. And, all was within the bounds of normal, giving, of course, wide birth to the meaning of the word, for this is nonfiction, not fiction. But with one […]
Chasing down HIPAA violations isn’t just about enforcing compliance, it’s about the government collecting big bucks. Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”), the branch charged with enforcement of HIPAA’s Privacy and Security Rules, settled with Florida-based Memorial Health System (“MHS”) for $5.5 million. The charge? […]
