Now that they’ve been sentenced to prison, I can reveal the fate of the healthcare power couple, Alexandra Gehrke and her husband, Jeffrey King, whose wound care graft graft put close to $615,000,000 in their pockets, albeit temporarily.
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You Can’t Lipstick That Pig: Why Physicians Must Carefully Vet Deals
Deals involving management services agreements, consulting contracts, or similar structures can appear completely legal at first glance. But dig deeper, and they might turn out to be elaborate covers for kickbacks or bribes.
An Algorithmic Conspiracy? DOJ Weighs In on MultiPlan Case
As healthcare payers, tech platforms, and pricing vendors increasingly collaborate through sophisticated analytics, this case is a clear reminder: if you’re coordinating decisions that competitors used to make…
How to Almost Make Half a Billion Dollars: The Arizona Wound Graft Fraud
If you thought health care fraud required medical knowledge, think again.
Snoop Doc Takes The Rap For HIPAA Hop – Faces 5 Years in Pen For Illegally Accessing Medical Records – Podcast
You’re signed in to the hospital’s electronic medical record system. What’s the harm in just typing in the name of a friend to see what pops up?
Snoop Doc Takes The Rap For HIPAA Hop – Faces 5 Years in Pen For Illegally Accessing Medical Records
You’re signed in to the hospital’s electronic medical record system. What’s the harm in just typing in the name of a friend to see what pops up?
The Combination to Joint Ventures – Podcast
I found an old lock in the garage. Now, what’s the combination?
Healthcare Freedom of Choice: Doughnuts and Doing Time
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…
The Combination to Joint Ventures – Medical Group Minute
When we talk about joint ventures in healthcare, we tend to think of illegality.
The Combination to Joint Ventures
When we talk about joint ventures in healthcare, we tend to think of illegality, as in “suspect joint venture,” the pejorative term crafted by the OIG.