Compliance

Another Hospital System Settles Whistleblower Allegations That Outpatients Were “Turned Into” Inpatients

Alchemists struggled without success for centuries attempting to turn lead into gold. Will hospitals struggle that long in their quest to turn outpatients into inpatients? Prime Healthcare Services, Inc. (“Prime”), headquartered in Ontario, California, and Prime’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Prem Reddy. On February 14, 2019, the Department of Justice announced that Prime […]

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Compliance

Conflicts of Interest: Do You Have One?

Conflicts of interest. Everyone’s talking about them. Do you have one? They’re apparently bad. Or are they? But what in the heck does “conflict of interest” even mean? When you think about it, “conflict of interest” is a term of a type similar to those other PC favorites, “greed” and “fair share” (which, by the […]

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