Although any particular crisis can’t be predicted, classes of crisis are capable of prediction and, even if that is not true of a specific situation, the way in which your group or business will respond to a crisis can, should, and must be planned far in advance.
It you haven’t yet read it, see my December 16, 2024, post, Now’s The Time to Overturn the No Surprises Act, for part 1 of this thread.
When that post was published on LinkedIn, my friend James Prudden commented, asking me how patients would be protected if the No Surprises Act were repealed. Here’s my response to James.
Re-frame the issue for what it really is: Surprise physician services stealing. Now’s the time for the No Surprises Act, and each state counterpart, to go.
Although no one is going to do time as a result of thinking that wet sidewalks cause rain, in the case of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, confusion over correlation can put you in jail.
Cars go in reverse. So do ceiling fans and electric drills. But did you know that kickbacks go in reverse, too, and that there’s no safe harbor for that?
In your search to understand risk, don’t fall for the simple heuristic that bigger is better.
In your search to understand risk, don’t fall for the simple heuristic that bigger is better.
The first purchase price is the one that the seller receives. The second purchase price is the one that the seller pays by having sold to the wrong buyer.
The first purchase price is the one that the seller receives. The second purchase price is the one that the seller pays by having sold to the wrong buyer.
Even though many physicians and facility administrators don’t realize it, a revolving door can be a useful analogy for anti-kickback analysis. Or, I suppose, just for kickbacks.