Like a bear emerging from its long winter nap, the Federal Trade Commission is hungry to enforce antitrust law.
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FTC Challenge to Sanford Health/Mid Dakota Clinic Physician Group Merger and the Lesson for You – Podcast
Like a bear emerging from its long winter nap, the Federal Trade Commission is hungry to enforce antitrust law in the healthcare sector.
Hospital Chain Paying More Than a Quarter BILLION Dollars to Resolve False Billing and Kickback Allegations
When my kids were small, we spent many a lazy Sunday afternoon watching monster versus monster movies, you know, like Godzilla versus Mothra. Although today’s post doesn’t feature any Japanese creatures from Monster Island, it does feature a similar, two-monsters-in-one tale, drawing from, and compounding on, violations previously featured on the blog. And, although Tokyo…
A Naive Anti-Kickback Question Answered – Podcast
There’s an expression in carpentry, “measure twice, cut once.” We should have the same expression in terms of healthcare deals…
Taxis vs. Uber . . . Hospitals vs. Physicians – Success in Motion
Ride along as Mark discusses the fact that when businesses can’t compete, they become big believers in regulation, just as in the ban on new physician-owned Medicare participating hospitals.
FTC Challenge to Sanford Health/Mid Dakota Clinic Physician Group Merger and the Lesson For You
Like a bear emerging from its long winter nap, the Federal Trade Commission is hungry to enforce antitrust law in the healthcare sector, including, notably, in connection with monopolization through mergers in the market for physician services. In 2017, the FTC challenged the proposed merger of physician group Mid Dakota Clinic into Sanford Health, an…
But Does It Work in the Real World? Second Order Thinking and Perfect Legal Structure – Medical Group Minute
Watch while Mark discusses how you can apply real-world strategic thinking to legal and business decision-making.
Don’t Do the Crime if You Can’t Do the Time as Hospital CEO
Over the years, I have dealt with many hospital CEOs that I thought were criminals. In fact, I have dealt with some who were indicted, and, in at least one case, a CEO who later became a long-term “guest” in the Gray Bar Hotel. But it still amazed me to read last week in a…
What A Tennessee Lawsuit Teaches You About Protecting Your Medical Group’s Business
You can’t build a bigger future for your medical group’s business if all you do is play is defense. You have to play offense, too: you must take affirmative steps to grow your business. But just the same, the failure to play defense can be fatal. There’s a lesson in defense to be learned from…
Drugs, Sentencing and Lock (and Roll) on to Another Kickback Prosecution – Podcast
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?