THE NATIONAL HEALTHCARE LAW PRACTICE
ADVISORY E-ALERT
2019
January 31st - Anesthesia Company Model Arrangement Fuels $1.718 Million Dollar FCA Settlement by a Surgeon and a Separate Guilty Plea By Another Doctor Defendant
February 28th - Hospitals Beg To Be Aligned By Physicians . . . And One Settles Whistleblower Allegations That It Paid To Become Aligned
March 31st - The Double Edge Sword of Governemnt Interference
April 30th - Preparing for a Medical Practice Sale or Simply Preparing: Why You Must Start Now and What You Must Start Doing
May 31st - How You Can Profit From Reversing A Walmart Healthcare Strategy
June 30th - How to Reverse Engineer Your Compliance Efforts, Courtesy of Uncle Sam
July 31st - Two Heads Aren't Better Than One When It Comes To Medical Group Leadership
August 31st - Hospital Sues Medical Group. Medical Group Returns The Favor. Both Likely Lose.
September 30th - Deteriorated Insulation From the Hassles of Running a Medical Practice
October 31st - Why Sutter Health's Settlement Of Antitrust Case Sends Signals Concerning Anti-Kickback Compliance
November 30th - Why Sutter Health's Settlement of Antitrust Case Sends Signals Concerning Anti-Kickback Compliance
December 31st - Maybe Not 2020, But This Vision’s In Focus
2018
January 31st - RFPs: Reality, Unicorns, and Cognitive Bias
February 28th - Socialism Is Alive and Well Within Medical Groups
March 31st - The Third Way: An Alternative Business Structure For Hospital-Based Groups
April 30th - Medicare Strike Force Isn’t Super Troopers, But They Indict Two Healthcare Executives Anyway
May 31st - Off To Jail For 38th Doctor Convicted In Lab Scheme
June 30th - Direct Contracting By Physicians and Medical Group
July 31st - FTC Challenges Physician Group Merger: The Lesson For You
August 31st - How to Control the Context of Negotiation to Maximize your Outcome
September 30th - Far Too “Friendly Physician” To Plead Guilty In $60 Million Healthcare Fraud. Will Murder Charges Follow?
October 31st - More Than 50 of the Over 353 Questions Every High Performing Medical Group Leader Must Ask Him or Herself: A Self-Diagnostic
December 31st - False Claims And Faulty Brains: Letting The Fox Into The False Claims Act Henhouse
2017
January 31st - Why Your Compliance May Be Worthless
February 28th - TeamHealth Coughs Up $60 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegation
March 31st - 43rd Conviction in Lab Scam Kickback Case: What You Need To Know
April 30th - What You Need to Know About The Bedless Hospital That You Can Build: The Massive Outpatient Central
May 31st - Little Mercy For Mercy Hospital: Government Gets $34 Million Settlement in Whistleblower Case
June 30th -The Medical Group Governance Matrix™
July 31st - What You Need To Know About The Flea That (Metaphorically) Killed The Medical Center CEO
August 31st - The Four Circles
September 29th - State Regulators Take Antitrust Aim at Aggressive Heath System Competition
October 31st - Medical Group and Healthcare Facility: Comfort Zone Or Continued Existence, Your Choice
November 30th - Compliance Risk as Side Effect of the Shift to Outpatient Care
December 31st - From Steelworkers to Surgeons: Gainsharing and Physician Groups
2016
January 29th - Sam Walton's Failure Is A Lesson For Medical Groups
February 29th - Compounding The Kickback Problem
March 31st - Federal Government Sets Clock For Return of Medicare Overpayments: Be Late At Your Own Peril
April 29th - Payors Conducting War Against Out of Network Facilities
June 30th - Major Expansion Of False Claims Act
July 29th - iPhone or Pay Phone? HIPAA Business Associate Loses Cell Phone And Pays $650,000 to HHS
August 31st - WalMart and the Expansion of Hospital and Medical Group Liability
September 30th - What You Need To Know About Bedless Hospitals And Your Future
October 31st - Physicians, Pharmacists and Fraudsters Squeezed in Pain Cream Scam
November 30th - Obamacare And Post Election Certainty. Well, More or Less.
December 30th - Hospital Killing Provisions Of 21st Century Cures Act Boost Physician Entrepreneurship
2015
January 30th - McDonald's and Delivering Medical Group Value
February 27th - Medical Monopoly Not A Game: Court Shoots Down Hospital- Medical Group Merger
March 31st - For Whom The Whistle Blows
April 30th - Governed or Governed?
May 29th - Have You Made This Mistake Concerning Your Medical Practice?
June 30th - OIG Announces Closer Anti-Kickbacks Scrutiny of Physician Deals
July 31st - Medical Group Officer Goes To Jail: Kickback Arrangement
August 31st - Stranger Whistleblower Case With Lessons For All
October 31st - Are You Ready For The Impact of Telehealth and Telemedicine
November 30th - Do This Whether You're Grooming For Sale Or Grooming To Grow
December 31st - Climate Change and Hospital-Controlled Medicine
2014
•January 31st - Medical Group Acquisitions And Alternatives
•February 28th - Medical Group Acquisitions And Alternatives
•March 31st - Hospital Relationships: Understanding The Concept of "Switching Cost"
•April 30th - Strategy Before Action Or Even Before Talking About it
•May 30th - Why You Shouldn't Let History And Momentum Dictate Your Medical Business Structure
•June 301th - What Switzerland Teaches Us About Medical Group Structure
•July 31st - What's Next? Succession, Sale (or Acquisition), and Strategy
•August 29th - Bundled Billing or Bungled Billing?
•September 30th - Why Taking Control Is A Smart Contracting Tactic
•October 31s - Medical Group Mergers: Rushing to the Alter or Altering The Definition?
•November 28th - How to Increase Your Income
•December 31st - Dear Healthcare Deal, You Are So Attractive! I Need You!
2020
January 31st - Compound Drugs: Miracle Cure Or Kickback Lure?
September 30 -
Why You Must Read the Funniest Healthcare Headline Ever
2021
January 31 - Sam Walton's Failure Is A Lesson For Medical Groups
June 30 -
How to Avoid a Medical Group Three-Legged Leadership Race to the Bottom
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