What appears to the unknowing and unsuspecting to be a normal day-to-day business transaction is really something quite different.
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Deteriorated Insulation From the Hassles of Running a Medical Practice
The word “hospital” means “bureaucracy.” The epidemic of discontent among hospital-employed physicians is reaching all time high levels. Instead of seeing the outbreak as a negative, let’s explores some of the opportunities that this trend presents.
Fraud on Physicians in the ASC Setting – Medical Group Minute
As more physicians rush to invest in ASCs, unscrupulous facility promoters/managers scheme to separate physician investors from their money.
Surprise (Medical Bills)! Language, Framing and Your Bank Account
Both state and national level politicians certainly know what side the bread is buttered on, and who’s doing the buttering. There are far more patients than there are physicians, thus the rush to fix the problem they’ve defined as “surprise medical bills.” Sure, just like I’m surprised when I pay good money for admission to…
Tastes Like Chicken. Smells Like Fraud.
When most people think of kickback schemes in the healthcare context, they immediately go to notions of payments to physicians for referrals. Now, that’s not an unwarranted assumption because, unfortunately, much of the history of the application of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute involves physician-referral issues. Within large medical groups, and similarly within physician-owned facilities such…
Another Hospital System Settles Whistleblower Allegations That Outpatients Were “Turned Into” Inpatients – Podcast
Alchemists struggled without success for centuries attempting to turn lead into gold.
Another Hospital System Settles Whistleblower Allegations That Outpatients Were “Turned Into” Inpatients – Medical Group Minute
Alchemists struggled without success for centuries attempting to turn lead into gold.
Rainbows, Unicorns, And Fraudulent ASC Deals
The bottom line for you, as an ASC investor, is to carefully investigate the deal, and its promoters, on the way in, and on a periodic basis after the investment is made.
Another Hospital System Settles Whistleblower Allegations That Outpatients Were “Turned Into” Inpatients
Alchemists struggled without success for centuries attempting to turn lead into gold. Will hospitals struggle that long in their quest to turn outpatients into inpatients? Prime Healthcare Services, Inc. (“Prime”), headquartered in Ontario, California, and Prime’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Prem Reddy. On February 14, 2019, the Department of Justice announced that Prime…
Far Too “Friendly Physician” Pleads Guilty in $60 Million Healthcare Fraud – Medical Group Minute
What’s your medical license worth?