Attempting to hide healthcare kickbacks through third parties is a losing strategy. One case shows just how costly that mistake can be.
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For Whom the Whistle Blows: Texas County Hospital Settles False Claims Act Suit
Citizens Medical Center, a county-owned hospital in Victoria, Texas, paid the United States government $21,750,000 to settle, without admitting wrongdoing, a whistleblower suit under the False Claims Act. The whistleblowers, competing physicians, will receive $5,981,250 from the recovery.
Medical Monopoly Not a Game: Court Shoots Down Hospital-Medical Group Merger – Podcast
If the hospital can, both through practice acquisition and the expansion of its system, acquire sufficient market power, it can also pressure insurers, individual consumers, and others paying for healthcare to pay more for the same services.
Healthcare Executives in Prison – Podcast
As hospitals gather more power courtesy of Obamacare, some are becoming more daring in terms of extracting cash from non-aligned physicians who don’t control referrals.
Office Sharing: Turning Share Mates Into Cell Mates
All you wanted to do was to share office space, not cell space. Plan accordingly, the devil is in the details.
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.
Why Your Practice Should Flow Like Water
Water might travel well in the aqueduct channel. But unless it’s spread outside of it, the crops won’t grow.
Physician Goes to Jail in Referral Scheme
From cash kickbacks to the company model to phony leases, deals between referring physicians and those physicians and facilities receiving referrals are subject to increasing scrutiny.
Here’s What Happens When Physician Alignment Is Out of Line
Last October, a federal trial court ordered Tuomey Healthcare System to pay approximately $237 million as a result of Stark Law failures that gave rise to a False Claims Act violation.
Hospital Pays $8.5 Million False Claims Act Settlement in Illegal Joint Venture
Joint ventures between entities or individuals in the position to refer and the entities or individuals which receive those referrals are often disguised kickback arrangements.