Comply with Safe Harbors by: Jill Vogel A. During a recent Medicare conference, representatives of the Office of Inspector General announced that the healthcare industry should expect to see an uptick in the investigations of alleged Medicare fraud and abuse. True to their word, the OIG has been busy. As the new fiscal year approaches,…
Read MorePhysicians Read Your Employment Contracts Before Signing It: Here’s Why by: Micheal Kreager Corporate Employment. The siren’s song of corporate employment is tantalizing … and effective. Survey after survey of employed physicians confirms corporations are gaining physician employment over private practices.1 As a corporate law attorney, I have read hundreds of corporate employment agreements. This…
Read MoreCPOM: Where Money and Physician Judgment Collide: By Mike Kreager, J.D., LL. M. Any physician who has practiced medicine for any length of time has seen the line demarking management and the exercise of independent medical judgment clearly crossed. In the 1990s, a new hospital business model was to acquire gatekeeper practices, primarily family medicine,…
Read MoreOur own Trenton Brown was published in the St. Mary’s Law School Journal.
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