How many compliance related crimes have you or your colleagues or employees committed today, whether purposefully or, completely inadvertently?
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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.
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Should non-taxpaying hospitals, the facilities that prefer to be known by the misnomer “not for profit,” be able to gamble their tax free funds on venture capital investments?
Facilities that prefer to be known by the misnomer “not for profit,” are able to gamble their tax free funds on venture capital investments. Should they?
Every new, and every existing, financial relationship with anyone or any entity with which physicians and other healthcare providers do business must be vetted or re-vetted in light of today’s enforcement reality.
On Thursday, June 28th, the 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, for their alleged participation in health care fraud schemes involving more than $2 billion in false billings. The […]
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 […]
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.
The federal Anti-Kickback statute makes it illegal to receive anything of value for the referral of federal health care program patients. How are you managing this potential pitfall?