Question 1

2024

Accepted Answer

January 31 - Chuck Might Not Know About Personal Space, but Did He Kill Your Facility Agreement or Worse? (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2024/Jan2024.pdf)

February 29 - Why You Shouldn’t Let History and Momentum Dictate Your Medical Business Structure (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2024/Feb2024.pdf)

March 31 -  Pharmacy President Sentenced for Pill and Pain Cream Scam. Will Physicians Become Cellmates? (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2024/March2024.pdf)

April 30 - FTC Bans (Most) Worker Covenants Not to Compete and Their Equivalents (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2024/April2024.pdf)

May 31 - Immediate Action Required: Review All Employment, Independent Contractor, Partnership, and Shareholder Agreements to Avoid Claims of Unfair Competition and Surprise Unenforceability (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2024/May2024.pdf)

June 30 - Why You Shouldn’t Let History and Momentum Dictate Your Medical Business Structure (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2024/June2024.pdf)

July 31 - My Father Loved to Buy Cars. And Your Exclusive Contract. (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2024/July2024.pdf)

August 30 - You Need to Know What the Order Striking the FTC’s Ban on Non-Competes Means for You  (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2024/Aug2024.pdf)

Question 2

2023

Accepted Answer

January 31 - Why Taking Control Is a Smart Contracting Tactic (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2023/Jan2023.pdf)

February 28 - Dollars Down. Number of Settlements Remains High. Same False Claims Act Concerns for Physicians (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2023/Feb2023.pdf)

March 31 - The Pitfalls of Facility-Commissioned Coverage Stipend Fair Market Valuation (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2023/March2023.pdf)

April 30 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Why Some Negotiations Succeed (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2023/April2023.pdf)

May 31 - If “The Smartest People in the Room” File Bankruptcy, What’s That Mean for You? Lessons and Opportunities.(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2023/May2023.pdf)

June 30 - Why You Shouldn’t Let History and Momentum Dictate Your Medical Business Structure  (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2023/June2023.pdf)

July 31 - Increasing Fragility of Physician Management Companies Seeds Fear (and Opportunity)(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2023/July2023.pdf)

August 31 - OIG Shoots Down Neurological Contractual Joint Venture and Creates Tidal Wave in Anesthesia and Other Referral Based Specialties(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2023/August2023.pdf)

September 30 - Monopoly and Price Fixing or Just Hot Gas? FTC Sues U.S. Anesthesia Partners and Welsh, Carson for Antitrust Violations  (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2023/Sept23.pdf)

October 31 - Surprising Advisory Opinion on ASC Profit Sharing by Non-Owner Employed Physicians (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2023/Oct2023.pdf)

November 30 - OIG Issues Legitimately Helpful Compliance Guidance (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2023/November2023.pdf)

December 31 - What You MUST Know About Corporate Transparency Act Reporting Starting in 2024 (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2023/December2023.pdf)

Question 3

2022

Accepted Answer

January 31 - OIG Changes Rules on Advisory Opinions(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2022/Jan2022.pdf)

February 28 - Surprise: Arbitration Regulations Under No Surprises Act Ruled Illegal(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2022/Feb2022.pdf)
 
March 31 - Will an Indicted Physician Plead Daylight Savings Time as a Defense? (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2022/March2022.pdf)

April 30 - Popularity Contests and Disruptive Physicians: Avoiding the Death of Your Medical Group (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2022/April2022.pdf)

May 31 - Just Because You Can Rent Out Your Home on Airbnb Doesn’t Mean That You Can Rent Out Your Medical License and Avoid Jail (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2022/May_2022.pdf)

June 30 - My Father Loved to Buy Cars. And Your Exclusive Contract or Employment Agreement. (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2022/June22.pdf)

July 31 - OIG Releases Special Fraud Alert on Telemedicine Arrangements (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2022/July2022.pdf)

August 31 - What a $24.3 Million Judgment Tells You About a Potential Tool to Fight Unfair Awards of Exclusive Contracts  (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2022/Aug22.pdf)

September 30 - Hedge Your Bets: Bigger Is Better Until It Isn't - CommonSpirt Loses Close to $2 Billion and Moody's Investors Service States Envision Healthcare Might Be Headed for Bankruptcy (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2022/September2022.pdf)

October 31 - The Other Pandemic: Healthcare Cyber Attacks (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2022/Oct2022.pdf)

November 30 - Is Your Group's Governance Structure Holding You Back? (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2022/Nov22.pdf)

December 31 - More Than 50 of the Over 353 Questions Every High Performing Medical Group Leader Must Ask Him or Herself: A Self-Diagnostic (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2022/Dec22.pdf)

Question 4

2021

Accepted Answer

January 31 - Sam Walton's Failure Is a Lesson for Medical Groups(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2021/Jan2021.pdf)

February 28 - Free $10.6 Million Dollar Lesson on How Not to Fire Physicians(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2021/Feb2021.pdf)

March 31 - Felonious Forest Park Physicians Freighted Off to Federal Prison(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2021/March2021.pdf)

April 30 - A Negotiation Tip: What's His or Her Own Motivation?(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2021/April2021.pdf)

May 31 - Lessons from SCA Indictment: Due Dilligence Required. Not All Risk Can Be Forseen, but It's Yours.(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2021/May2021.pdf)

June 30 - How to Avoid a Medical Group Three-Legged Leadership Race to the Bottom(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2021/June2021.pdf)

July 31 - Brace Yourself for Increased Prosecution of Telemedicine Fraud(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2021/July2021.pdf)

August 31 - Why You Must Know How Covenants Not to Compete Destroyed A Group's Exclusive Contracts(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2021/August2021.pdf)

September 30 - Reverse Engineering of AKS Safe Harbor Will Cost a Surgeon His Freedom(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2021/September2021.pdf)

October 31 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Why S(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2021/October2021.pdf)ome (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2021/October2021.pdf)Deals Succeed(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2021/October2021.pdf)

November 30 - Anesthesiologists, ASCs, Referring Physicians, and Alleged Kickbacks Fuel $28 Million Settlement(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2021/Nov2021.pdf)

December 31 - Are You Prepared to Be Unreasonable? George, Franz and Scott Offer Suggestions.(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2021/Dec2021.pdf)

Question 5

2020

Accepted Answer

January 31 - Compound Drugs: Miracle Cure or Kickback Lure?(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2020/January2020IssueOfWisdomAppliedNewsletter.pdf)

February 29 - Physician Practice Consolidator Gets Owned(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2020/February2020IssueOfWisdomAppliedNewsletter.pdf)

March 31 - Let’s Find the Cure for Surprise Physician Services Stealing(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2020/March2020IssueOfWisdomAppliedNewsletter.pdf)

April 30 - The Business of America Is Business. So What Are You Doing?(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2020/April2020IssueOfWisdomAppliedNewsletter.pdf)

May 31 - Hospital Equals U-Haul Truck in Back Filled With Corpses Was Not a Good Marketing Slogan(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2020/May2020.pdf)

June 30 - What Some Will Do for the Love of Barbecue - Opioids, Fires, Family and Fraud(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2020/June2020WisdomApplied.pdf)

July 31 - What You Must Know About Opportunities, Euphemisms and Power: Group "Buys" Competitors for Nothing(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2020/July2020WisdomApplied.pdf)

August 31 - The Medical Group Governance Matrix(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2020/August2020Issue.pdf)

September 30 - Why You Must Read the Funniest Healthcare Headline Ever(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2020/Sept2020WisdomApplied.pdf)

October 31 - Pass-Thru Billing and Jail (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2020/Oct2020.pdf)

November 30 - The Science Is Settled: California Med Spa Physician Charged With Covid Cure Mail Fraud(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2020/Nov2020.pdf)

December 31 - Are You Prepared to Be Unreasonable? George, Franz and Scott Offer Suggestions(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2020/Dec2020.pdf)

Question 6

2019

Accepted Answer

January 31 - Anesthesia Company Model Arrangement Fuels $1.718 Million Dollar FCA Settlement by a Surgeon and a Separate Guilty Plea By Another Doctor Defendant(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2019/Jan2019.pdf)

February 28 - Hospitals Beg to Be Aligned by Physicians . . . and One Settles Whistleblower Allegations That It Paid to Become Aligned(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2019/Feb2019.pdf)

March 31 - The Double Edge Sword of Governemnt Interference(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2019/Mar2019.pdf)

April 30 - Preparing for a Medical Practice Sale or Simply Preparing: Why You Must Start Now and What You Must Start Doing(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2019/April2019.pdf)

May  31 - How You Can Profit From Reversing a Walmart Healthcare Strategy(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2019/May2019.pdf)

June 30 - How to Reverse Engineer Your Compliance Efforts, Courtesy of Uncle Sam(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2019/June2019.pdf)

July 31 - Two Heads Aren't Better Than One When It Comes to Medical Group Leadership(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2019/July2019.pdf)

August 31 - Hospital Sues Medical Group. Medical Group Returns the Favor. Both Likely Lose.(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2019/August2019.pdf)

September 30 - Deteriorated Insulation From the Hassles of Running a Medical Practice(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2019/September2019.pdf)

October 31 - Why Sutter Health's Settlement of Antitrust Case Sends Signals Concerning Anti-Kickback Compliance(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2019/October2019.pdf)

November 30 - Why Sutter Health's Settlement of Antitrust Case Sends Signals Concerning Anti-Kickback Compliance(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2019/November2019.pdf)

December 31 - Maybe Not 2020, but This Vision’s in Focus(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2019/Dec2019.pdf)

Question 7

2018

Accepted Answer

January 31 - RFPs: Reality, Unicorns, and Cognitive Bias(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2018/Jan2018.pdf)

February 28 - Socialism Is Alive and Well Within Medical Groups(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2018/Feb2018.pdf)

March 31 - The Third Way: An Alternative Business Structure for Hospital-Based Groups(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2018/March2018.pdf)

April 30 - Medicare Strike Force Isn’t Super Troopers, but They Indict Two Healthcare Executives Anyway(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2018/April2018.pdf)

May 31 - Off to Jail for 38th Doctor Convicted in Lab Scheme(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2018/May2018.pdf)

June 30 - Direct Contracting by Physicians and Medical Group (https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2018/June2018.pdf)

July 31 - FTC Challenges Physician Group Merger: The Lesson for You(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2018/July2018.pdf)

August 31 - How to Control the Context of Negotiation to Maximize your Outcome(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2018/August2018.pdf)

September 30 - Far Too “Friendly Physician” to Plead Guilty In $60 Million Healthcare Fraud. Will Murder Charges Follow?(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2018/Sep2018.pdf)

October 31 - More Than 50 of the Over 353 Questions Every High Performing Medical Group Leader Must Ask Him or Herself: A Self-Diagnostic(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2018/Oct2018.pdf)

November 30 - CMS Boosts Independent Physician Practice and Physician-Owned Facilities: Cuts Payments to Hospital Outpatient Clinics by 40% and Increases Payments to ASCs by 2.1%(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2018/Nov2018.pdf)

December 31 - False Claims and Faulty Brains: Letting the Fox into the False Claims Act Henhouse(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2018/December2018.pdf)

Question 8

2017

Accepted Answer

January 31 - Why Your Compliance May Be Worthless(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2017/Jan2017.pdf)

February 28 - TeamHealth Coughs Up $60 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegation(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2017/Feb2017.pdf)

March 31 - 43rd Conviction in Lab Scam Kickback Case: What You Need to Know(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2017/Mar2017.pdf)

April 30 - What You Need to Know About the Bedless Hospital That You Can Build: The Massive Outpatient Center(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2017/Apr2017.pdf)

May 31 - Little Mercy for Mercy Hospital: Government Gets $34 Million Settlement in Whistleblower Case(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2017/May2017.pdf)

June 30 - The Medical Group Governance Matrix™ (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2017/June2017.pdf)

July 31 - What You Need to Know About the Flea That (Metaphorically) Killed the Medical Center CEO(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2017/July2017.pdf)

August 31 - The Four Circles(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2017/Aug2017.pdf)

September 29 - State Regulators Take Antitrust Aim at Aggressive Heath System Competition(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2017/Sep2017.pdf)

October 31 - Medical Group and Healthcare Facility: Comfort Zone Or Continued Existence, Your Choice(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2017/Oct2017.pdf)

November 30 - Compliance Risk as Side Effect of the Shift to Outpatient Care(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2017/Nov2017.pdf)

December 31 - From Steelworkers to Surgeons: Gainsharing and Physician Groups(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2017/Dec2017.pdf)

Question 9

2016

Accepted Answer

January 29 - Sam Walton's Failure Is a Lesson for Medical Groups(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2016/Jan2016.pdf)

February 29 - Compounding the Kickback Problem(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2016/Feb2016.pdf)

March 31 - Federal Government Sets Clock for Return of Medicare Overpayments: Be Late at Your Own Peril(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2016/Mar2016.pdf)

April 29 - Payors Conducting War Against Out of Network Facilities(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2016/Apr2016.pdf)

May 31 - Pills, Capsules, and Kickbacks: Drug Manufacturer Pays $125 Million. Execs Plead Out, Another to Be Tried(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2016/May2016.pdf)

June 30 - Major Expansion of False Claims Act(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2016/June2016.pdf)

July 29 - iPhone or Pay Phone? HIPAA Business Associate Loses Cell Phone and Pays $650,000 to HHS(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2016/July2016.pdf)

August 31 - WalMart and the Expansion of Hospital and Medical Group Liability(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2016/Aug2016.pdf)

September 30 - What You Need to Know About Bedless Hospitals and Your Future(https://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2016/Sept2016.pdf)

October 31 - Physicians, Pharmacists and Fraudsters Squeezed in Pain Cream Scam(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2016/Oct2016.pdf)

November 30 - Obamacare and Post Election Certainty. Well, More or Less.(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2016/Nov2016.pdf)

December 30 - Hospital Killing Provisions of 21st Century Cures Act Boost Physician Entrepreneurship(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2016/Dec2016.pdf)

Question 10

2015

Accepted Answer

January 30 - McDonald's and Delivering Medical Group Value(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2015/Jan2015.pdf)

February 27 - Medical Monopoly Not A Game: Court Shoots Down Hospital - Medical Group Merger(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2015/Feb2015.pdf)

March 31 - For Whom the Whistle Blows(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2015/Mar2015.pdf)

April 30 - Governed or Governed?(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2015/Apr2015.pdf)

May 29 - Have You Made This Mistake Concerning Your Medical Practice?(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2015/May2015.pdf)

June 30 - OIG Announces Closer Anti-Kickbacks Scrutiny of Physician Deals(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2015/Jun2015.pdf)

July 31 - Medical Group Officer Goes to Jail: Kickback Arrangement (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2015/Jul2015.pdf)

August 31 - Stranger Whistleblower Case With Lessons for All(http://blog.weisspc.com//Alerts/2015/Aug2015.pdf)

October 31 - Are You Ready for the Impact of Telehealth and Telemedicine (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2015/Oct2015.pdf)

November 30 - Do This Whether You're Grooming for Sale or Grooming to Grow(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2015/Nov2015.pdf)

December 31 - Climate Change and Hospital-Controlled Medicine (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2015/Dec2015.pdf)

Question 11

2014

Accepted Answer

January 31 - Medical Group Acquisitions and Alternatives(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2014/Jan2014.pdf)

February 28 - Medical Group Acquisitions and Alternatives(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2014/Feb2014.pdf)

March 31 - Hospital Relationships: Understanding the Concept of "Switching Cost"(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2014/Mar2014.pdf)

April 30 - Strategy Before Action or Even Before Talking About it(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2014/Apr2014.pdf)

May 30 - Why You Shouldn't Let History and Momentum Dictate Your Medical Business Structure(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2014/May2014.pdf)

June 30 - What Switzerland Teaches Us About Medical Group Structure (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2014/Jun2014.pdf)

July 31 - What's Next? Succession, Sale (or Acquisition), and Strategy(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2014/Jul2014.pdf)

August 29 - Bundled Billing or Bungled Billing?(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2014/Aug2014.pdf)

September 30 - Why Taking Control is A Smart Contracting Tactic(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2014/Sep2014.pdf)

October 31 - Medical Group Mergers: Rushing to the Alter or Altering the Definition? (http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2014/Oct2014.pdf)

November 28 - How to Increase Your Income(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2014/Nov2014.pdf)

December 31 - Dear Healthcare Deal, You Are So Attractive! I Need You!(http://blog.weisspc.com/Alerts/2014/Dec2014.pdf)

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