$500 Million in Alleged Phony Charges and the Dangers of Medical Directorship by Mark F. Weiss

Some models were once useful, but no longer are. How’s the “reliant on Medicare”, or even the “reliant on commercial payors”, model working out for you?

Your business exists and interfaces on multiple planes and, therefore, the far smarter approach is to explore and adopt protection on each.

Out of state and still billing for in-person care? A physician submitted claims while vacationing in Hawaii—and now faces criminal sentencing and a $500k civil payout.

Deals involving management services agreements, consulting contracts, or similar structures can appear completely legal at first glance. But dig deeper, and they might turn out to be elaborate covers for kickbacks or bribes.

The majority of healthcare fraud schemes center on fraud perpetrated by physicians, but what about schemes orchestrated to victimize physicians?

It’s been said that people read published lists of disciplined fellow professionals out of a sense of schadenfreude, the pleasure derived from another’s misfortune.

Although dollars are a lubricant, the real issue is freedom or optionality.

Bureaucratic sorts are drawn to numbers because numbers can be gathered and processed and manipulated, all with the goal of lifetime employment for those bean counters.

Certainly, Oregon is a small state in terms of medical practice, but what’s happened in Oregon could, and some say will, spread across the country.