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One Giant Leap Toward Success: Avoid One Simple Misstep for “Fraud-kind” – Podcast
If you’re a physician, it’s all too likely that you’re uncertain about the future, feel the pressure of an all too real governmentally imposed ceiling on your income, and have even less control than ever over your time.
No Matter How Hard They Tri[Care], Another Compounded Medicine Scam Creams Out
There are many legitimate ways for physicians to increase their practice income. They include, depending on state law, investments in compounding pharmacies and the direct dispensing of pharmaceuticals.
Record Bust: 601 Defendants, Including 165 Doctors, Nurses and Other Licensees Charged With Over $2 Billion in Fraud – Medical Group Minute
DOJ and HHS announced the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action. It resulted in charges against 601 defendants across 58 federal districts, including 165 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals.
Hospital-Physician Owned ASC Sues Freedom Loving Physician Entrepreneurs for Competing – Medical Group Minute
What’s really going on? And why should you, probably not a surgeon in Sioux City, care?
One Giant Leap Toward Success: Avoid One Simple Misstep for “Fraud-kind”
If you’re a physician, it’s all too likely that you’re uncertain about the future, feel the pressure of an all too real governmentally imposed ceiling on your income, and have even less control than ever over your time. It’s also likely that you seek a bigger and better future in which you have increased opportunities…
Alchemist Can’t Turn Outpatients into Inpatients for Less Than $18.3 Million – Podcast
You know that I strongly believe that the future of hospitals isn’t hospitals, it’s outpatient facilities.
Far Too “Friendly Physician” to Plead Guilty in $60 Million Healthcare Fraud. Will Murder Charges Follow?
In what’s being reported in the popular press as a $60 million healthcare fraud scheme, a Texas physician, Charles R. Leach, M.D., has agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud. The feds charged 16 people in the overall scheme. Leach is the fourth defendant to plead guilty. The scheme…
Alchemist Can’t Turn Outpatients Into Inpatients for Less Than $18.3 Million – Medical Group Minute
You know that I strongly believe that the future of hospitals isn’t hospitals, it’s outpatient facilities.
Fraud on Physicians in the ASC Setting
As the shift of surgeries from the hospital setting to the ASC setting accelerates, we’re seeing more fraud at the ASC level. No, I’m not talking about the significant amount of fraud that comes from the “usual suspects,” criminal operators who bill for medically unnecessary procedures, for procedures that never occurred, and so on. Instead,…