Well, the story as told by the Government is a familiar one: They allege that the events were payments to benefit Dr. Asfora and induce him to use Medtronic’s SynchroMed II intrathecal infusion pumps.
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Insurers Help Themselves By Helping You Help Patients . . . At Your ASC
Need a marketing consultant to help grow your ASC? You might want to check with your carriers first. Background As the latest step in a trend that began several years ago, effective for 2021, CMS added 267 new codes to Medicare’s ASC covered procedures list. These are the codes for procedures that Medicare recognizes for…
Can You Make it Any More Difficult for Your Patients to Pay You? – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark as he tells the story of having to work hard to pay his physician.
Medtronic Pays $9.21 Million Tip (Settlement) For Meals at Surgeon’s Restaurant
Over a nine-year period, Medtronic USA Inc., the mega-sized Minnesota-based medical device manufacturer, paid for over 100 events held at a Sioux Falls, South Dakota restaurant.
Doctor Exclaims, “I Wasn’t The Target, So Why Are They Gunning For Me?” – Podcast
As I always say, think like a carpenter and measure twice (or even thrice), vetting each deal carefully with healthcare counsel, before cutting once, cutting your own neck, that is.
Free Stay Out of Jail Pass – Podcast
Remind yourself that, as you watch this today and three weeks from today when you remember to pull out your get out of jail free card, that physicians like you are sitting in their cells today and that you don’t want to join them.
Free Stay Out of Jail Pass – Medical Group Minute
Remind yourself that, as you watch this today and three weeks from today when you remember to pull out your get out of jail free card, that physicians like you are sitting in their cells today and that you don’t want to join them.
Doctor Exclaims, “I Wasn’t The Target, So Why Are They Gunning For Me?” – Medical Group Minute
As I always say, think like a carpenter and measure twice (or even thrice), vetting each deal carefully with healthcare counsel, before cutting once, cutting your own neck, that is.
How to Put Your Finger on the Scale of Patient Satisfaction – Success in Motion
Physician compensation is becoming more dependent upon patient satisfaction. Mark discusses a way to hack patient satisfaction surveys.
Doctor Exclaims, “I Wasn’t The Target, So Why Are They Gunning For Me?”
Perhaps the target wasn’t Day-Glo orange, but the wound was life changing, if not life threatening.