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 […]
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In a recent set of go-rounds with the Department of Justice, the so-called company model of anesthesia services took a major hit.
Former Tenet Healthcare hospital CEOs, are facing trial in a criminal case that alleges that they personally violated the federal Anti-Kickback Statute.
In a recent set of go-rounds with the Department of Justice, the so-called company model of anesthesia services took a major hit: One alleged co-conspirator, Jonathan Daitch, M.D., just agreed to a $1.718 million civil settlement and another, Michael Frey, M.D., plead guilty in a criminal prosecution.
DOJ and HHS announced the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action. It resulted in charges against 601 defendants across 58 federal districts, including 165 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals.
As you may recall, back in April, 2018, in my post What’s The Downside Risk for Hospital Executives?, I wrote about the fact that Trevor Fetter, the former CEO of Tenet Healthcare, had no skin in the game: his strategy put the company into a nosedive. It lost hundreds of millions. But upon being pushed […]
Be careful not to destroy all of your Medicare claims by turning them into false claims.
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 […]
You can see why it’s so tempting for unscrupulous hospital CEOs to offer kickbacks to physicians.
There’s an expression in carpentry, “measure twice, cut once.” We should have the same expression in terms of healthcare deals…
