Who likes to make the bed? Apparently not hospitals, because an increasing number are building new “bedless” facilities. Reception area/waiting room? Check! Operating rooms? Check! Patient monitoring? Check! Inpatient rooms? Heck no! All of the overnight rooms are the patients’ own rooms at their homes. There’s no need to build them. There’s no need to staff […]
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All-Points Bulletin: Be on the lookout for the following suspect: No race. No sex. No height. No weight. Approximately zero to 6 years of age. Name unknown. Alias: Suspect Joint Venture. If seen, contact OIG or DOJ. Or, just blow the whistle and claim a bounty. As healthcare moves from the hospital setting to an […]
Driving through California’s Central Valley you see, and sometimes cross over, the aqueducts bringing water to the farmland.
Brick and mortar doesn’t change thinking. Thinking changes brick and mortar.
When we talk about joint ventures in healthcare, we tend to think of illegality.
When we talk about joint ventures in healthcare, we tend to think of illegality, as in “suspect joint venture,” the pejorative term crafted by the OIG.
Water might travel well in the aqueduct channel. But unless it’s spread outside of it, the crops won’t grow.
Joint ventures between entities or individuals in the position to refer and the entities or individuals which receive those referrals are often disguised kickback arrangements.