Former CEO Michael Babich pleaded guilty last week to charges related to the plethora of kickback allegations surrounding Insys Therapeutics, Inc., and its fentanyl drug, Subsys.
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How Walmart’s Latest Healthcare Announcement Can Be Your Key to Higher Prices
According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, beginning in January 2019, Walmart is requiring employees needing spine surgery to travel to certain contracted hospitals for their surgery. The paper reports that among the health systems Walmart will favor are the Mayo Clinic, Geisinger, and Memorial Hermann. So what’s that mean for you,…
Physician Behind Bars for Referrals: Kickbacks, Bribes, and Mail Fraud
Every new, and every existing, financial relationship with anyone or any entity with which physicians and other healthcare providers do business must be vetted or re-vetted in light of today’s enforcement reality.
U.S. Government Intervenes in 5 Kickback Based Whistleblower Cases Against Insys – Success in Motion
Ride along while Mark discusses the expanding case involving Insys Therapeutics and kickbacks paid to induce prescription of its drug, Subsys.
Another Physician Guilty of Receiving Insys/Subsys Kickbacks
On October 25, 2017, another physician, Jerrold Rosenberg, M.D., pleaded guilty to charges related to the plethora of kickback prosecutions emanating from Insys Therapeutics, Inc., and its fentanyl drug, Subsys. Couch and Ruan Sent to Prison In February of this year, I wrote in my post Pain Medicine Doctors Alleged to Have Received $115,000 in…
Payor Agreements and Hidden False Claims Act and Criminal Traps
It was a neighborhood like many others. Neat, but not too neat front yards. Newspapers brought in by 8:00 a.m. and maybe by 10:00 a.m. on weekends. And, all was within the bounds of normal, giving, of course, wide birth to the meaning of the word, for this is nonfiction, not fiction. But with one…