Non-Competes After the FTC’s Pivot: A Balancing Act for Medical Group Leaders by Mark F. Weiss

FTC ditches a full non-compete ban, but healthcare employers still face targeted crackdowns. Physician groups, take note.

Even the strongest physician-hospital relationships are transactional. Survival depends on diversification, not loyalty myths.

Several years ago, it would’ve been difficult to write too much about the strategy of responding to an RFP, i.e., a request for proposal, for physician services. Today, however, with an extreme shortage of physicians, RFPs are not so much a thing.

$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?