by admin | Mar 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
Just how many ways are there for a hospital to try to slip some money to a doctor to persuade him to refer the hospital some business? Oh, sure, there’s your plain-vanilla “here’s some cash, quick, hide it!” scheme. But as it turns out,...
by admin | Mar 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
There is something inherently wrong with paying a doctor to diagnose, treat or prescribe based on his own financial interests, instead of his patient’s. The Stark Act makes it illegal to pay a doctor to refer a patient to a particular hospital or nursing home,...
by admin | Mar 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
Where does the Government lose the most money to fraud? Dirty defense contractors? Highway contractors who skimp on the ingredients for asphalt? Nope. Healthcare fraud is dominating the False Claims Act cases. In one case, a hospital was even accused of doing...
by admin | Mar 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Stark Act addresses a problem that most of us assume could not conceivably actually be a threat. The Act makes it illegal to bribe a doctor to refer patients or prescribe certain medicines. Stark makes it clear that doctors are expected to make diagnoses and refer...
by admin | Feb 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
Healthcare fraud has become so rampant that more than half of False Claims Act cases are filed against healthcare providers trying to rip off Medicare and Medicaid. To try to make sense of the more than one hundred FCA cases that settled or tried last year, I have...
