The AKS prohibits offering, paying, soliciting, or receiving remuneration to induce referrals of items or services covered by Medicare and other federally funded programs.
Tag: orthopaedic
It’s not quite when Harry Met Sally. As you certainly know, there’s been a flood of investor money, notably private equity money, it into many medical specialties over the last decade. Depending on what specialty you’re in, private equity investment is just beginning to ramp up. For example, I’m seeing an uptick in deals in […]
If I can make you a dollar by cutting your costs, can I keep 50 cents?
If I can make you a dollar by cutting your costs, can I keep 50 cents?
If I can make you a dollar by cutting your costs, can I keep 50 cents? That, in a nutshell, is what’s described as “gainsharing” in the context of arrangements between medical groups and hospitals. The physicians, as a part of a structured arrangement, are rewarded for making a hospital service more efficient or more […]
