What do you get when you cross a compliance officer with a whistleblower?
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Tenet Healthcare Corporation’s most recent quarterly report (for the period ended 9/30/19) indicates that it's reached an agreement in principle with the United States Department of Justice to settle a whistleblower suit involving, among other serious allegations, that it participated in a so-called "company model of anesthesia services" scheme.
There are tremendous opportunities in the market, opportunities that you can exploit. But in doing so, you must think twice, or even thrice, about the proper structuring of your deals.
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It’s not quite when Harry Met Sally.
In the Wild West days of the 1980s and 90s, it wasn’t uncommon to see as many medical directors receiving stipends from a hospital as there are aspirins in a Costco-size bottle.
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There are tremendous opportunities in the market, opportunities that you can exploit. But in doing so, you must think twice, or even thrice, about the proper structuring of your deals.
In the Wild West days of the 1980s and 90s, it wasn’t uncommon to see as many medical directors receiving stipends from a hospital as there are aspirins in a Costco-size bottle.
Depending on the circumstances, there might be ways to legally structure deal participation on the part of referring physicians. On the other hand, some deals just stink from the start. The problem, of course is determining which is which.
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I recently attended a continuing legal education seminar. From a purely legal standpoint, the models made sense. However, from the practical standpoint, one apparently lost on the presenter, the structures were unfinanceable.
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I found an old lock in the garage. Now, what’s the combination?
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Mark F. Weiss
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