With physician shortages in many specialties opening up lucrative opportunities for locums work, temporary staffing is undergoing a boom.
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ASCs can be great investments for physicians – as long as they’re real. But if all they are are rainbows, unicorns, and clear blue skies, then you’d better stay away.
In cases such as these the usual process is for prosecutors to follow the web of the alleged conspiracy.
We all know the expression “life imitating art”, but hardly anyone talks about “crimes imitating compliance”. That is, until today.
We all know the expression “life imitating art”, but hardly anyone talks about “crimes imitating compliance”. That is, until today.
“Value based billing” remains dominant in the medical industry news, chiefly from the MACRA angle.
We all know the expression “life imitating art”, but hardly anyone talks about “crimes imitating compliance”. That is, until today.
Often lost on physicians is the fact that even though they might not be the moving party involved in the scam, liability falls on both sides of a kickback scheme.
Partnership is, it appears, the Holy Grail that, once grasped, results in eternal professional success. But what does partnership really mean?
An interesting case illustrates a potential new tool in the arsenal to fight against fixed hospital exclusive contracts and, potentially, against the consultants who helped put lipstick on the pig. Many hospital-based groups have been there: the situation in which a longstanding relationship with a hospital, whether or not via exclusive contract, is disrupted, in […]
