To paraphrase William Shakespeare, a rose by any other name might just be fraud.
Tag: kickback
Whether or Not Balloon Sinuplasty Indictment is Hot Air, its Lessons Apply to You
Don’t set yourself up to go to prison by thinking you are setting the government up to overpay you.
Anesthesiologists, ASCs, Referring Physicians, and Alleged Kickbacks Fuel $28 Million Settlement
Remember, that in cases of this sort, which are civil, not criminal, settlements resolve allegations, do not involve any admission of culpability or guilt…
Cleveland Clinic Unit Pays $21.25 Million to Resolve Kickback Case – Medical Group Minute
As always in these types of cases, which are civil actions, the settlement does not involve any admission that the allegations were true.
Cleveland Clinic Unit Pays $21.25 Million to Resolve Kickback Case – Podcast
As always in these types of cases, which are civil actions, the settlement does not involve any admission that the allegations were true.
$871.9 Million Dollar Pill Proves Hard to Swallow
But what about the rising price of settling allegations of pharmaceutical price-fixing?
When’s It a Violation of the Law?
For example, when is a payment or a lease or some service a kickback?
Felonious Forest Park Physicians Freighted Off To Federal Prison – Podcast
One thing is for certain, it will be no more walk in the park for the seven defendants convicted for their roles in a bribe and kickback scheme related to referring patients to Forest Park Hospital, a now defunct chain of Texas facilities.
A Legal Alternative to Illegal Kickbacks to Physicians – Medical Group Minute
You can see why it’s so tempting for unscrupulous hospital CEOs to offer kickbacks to physicians.
The Other Final Four: Hospital Executives Sentenced to Prison – Podcast
In my experience, most kickback schemes are not as brazen as this. They involve fewer numbers of people and, sometimes, behavior that is more easily rationalized by the participants as “sort of legal”.