THE NATIONAL HEALTHCARE LAW PRACTICE
January 31 - Chuck Might Not Know About Personal Space, but Did He Kill Your Facility Agreement or Worse?
February 29 - Why You Shouldn’t Let History and Momentum Dictate Your Medical Business Structure
March 31 - Pharmacy President Sentenced for Pill and Pain Cream Scam. Will Physicians Become Cellmates?
April 30 - FTC Bans (Most) Worker Covenants Not to Compete and Their Equivalents
June 30 - Why You Shouldn’t Let History and Momentum Dictate Your Medical Business Structure
July 31 - My Father Loved to Buy Cars. And Your Exclusive Contract. August 30 - You Need to Know What the Order Striking the FTC’s Ban on Non-Competes Means for You
January 31 - Why Taking Control Is a Smart Contracting Tactic
February 28 - Dollars Down. Number of Settlements Remains High. Same False Claims Act Concerns for Physicians
March 31 - The Pitfalls of Facility-Commissioned Coverage Stipend Fair Market Valuation
April 30 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Why Some Negotiations Succeed
June 30 - Why You Shouldn’t Let History and Momentum Dictate Your Medical Business Structure
July 31 - Increasing Fragility of Physician Management Companies Seeds Fear (and Opportunity)
September 30 - Monopoly and Price Fixing or Just Hot Gas? FTC Sues U.S. Anesthesia Partners and Welsh, Carson for Antitrust Violations
October 31 - Surprising Advisory Opinion on ASC Profit Sharing by Non-Owner Employed Physicians
November 30 - OIG Issues Legitimately Helpful Compliance Guidance
December 31 - What You MUST Know About Corporate Transparency Act Reporting Starting in 2024
January 31 - OIG Changes Rules on Advisory Opinions
February 28 - Surprise: Arbitration Regulations Under No Surprises Act Ruled Illegal
March 31 - Will an Indicted Physician Plead Daylight Savings Time as a Defense?
April 30 - Popularity Contests and Disruptive Physicians: Avoiding the Death of Your Medical Group
June 30 - My Father Loved to Buy Cars. And Your Exclusive Contract or Employment Agreement.
July 31 - OIG Releases Special Fraud Alert on Telemedicine Arrangements
August 31 - What a $24.3 Million Judgment Tells You About a Potential Tool to Fight Unfair Awards of Exclusive Contracts
October 31 - The Other Pandemic: Healthcare Cyber Attacks
November 30 - Is Your Group's Governance Structure Holding You Back?
December 31 - More Than 50 of the Over 353 Questions Every High Performing Medical Group Leader Must Ask Him or Herself: A Self-Diagnostic
January 31 - Sam Walton's Failure Is a Lesson for Medical Groups
February 28 - Free $10.6 Million Dollar Lesson on How Not to Fire Physicians
March 31 - Felonious Forest Park Physicians Freighted Off to Federal Prison
April 30 - A Negotiation Tip: What's His or Her Own Motivation?
May 31 - Lessons from SCA Indictment: Due Dilligence Required. Not All Risk Can Be Forseen, but It's Yours.
June 30 - How to Avoid a Medical Group Three-Legged Leadership Race to the Bottom
July 31 - Brace Yourself for Increased Prosecution of Telemedicine Fraud
August 31 - Why You Must Know How Covenants Not to Compete Destroyed A Group's Exclusive Contracts
September 30 - Reverse Engineering of AKS Safe Harbor Will Cost a Surgeon His Freedom
October 31 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Why Some Deals Succeed
November 30 - Anesthesiologists, ASCs, Referring Physicians, and Alleged Kickbacks Fuel $28 Million Settlement
December 31 - Are You Prepared to Be Unreasonable? George, Franz and Scott Offer Suggestions.
January 31 - Compound Drugs: Miracle Cure or Kickback Lure?
February 29 - Physician Practice Consolidator Gets Owned
March 31 - Let’s Find the Cure for Surprise Physician Services Stealing
April 30 - The Business of America Is Business. So What Are You Doing?
May 31 - Hospital Equals U-Haul Truck in Back Filled With Corpses Was Not a Good Marketing Slogan
June 30 - What Some Will Do for the Love of Barbecue - Opioids, Fires, Family and Fraud
July 31 - What You Must Know About Opportunities, Euphemisms and Power: Group "Buys" Competitors for Nothing
August 31 - The Medical Group Governance Matrix
September 30 - Why You Must Read the Funniest Healthcare Headline Ever
October 31 - Pass-Thru Billing and Jail
November 30 - The Science Is Settled: California Med Spa Physician Charged With Covid Cure Mail Fraud
December 31 - Are You Prepared to Be Unreasonable? George, Franz and Scott Offer Suggestions
February 28 - Hospitals Beg to Be Aligned by Physicians . . . and One Settles Whistleblower Allegations That It Paid to Become Aligned
March 31 - The Double Edge Sword of Governemnt Interference
May 31 - How You Can Profit From Reversing a Walmart Healthcare Strategy
June 30 - How to Reverse Engineer Your Compliance Efforts, Courtesy of Uncle Sam
July 31 - Two Heads Aren't Better Than One When It Comes to Medical Group Leadership
August 31 - Hospital Sues Medical Group. Medical Group Returns the Favor. Both Likely Lose.
September 30 - Deteriorated Insulation From the Hassles of Running a Medical Practice
October 31 - Why Sutter Health's Settlement of Antitrust Case Sends Signals Concerning Anti-Kickback Compliance
November 30 - Why Sutter Health's Settlement of Antitrust Case Sends Signals Concerning Anti-Kickback Compliance
December 31 - Maybe Not 2020, but This Vision’s in Focus
January 31 - RFPs: Reality, Unicorns, and Cognitive Bias
February 28 - Socialism Is Alive and Well Within Medical Groups
March 31 - The Third Way: An Alternative Business Structure for Hospital-Based Groups
April 30 - Medicare Strike Force Isn’t Super Troopers, but They Indict Two Healthcare Executives Anyway
May 31 - Off to Jail for 38th Doctor Convicted in Lab Scheme
June 30 - Direct Contracting by Physicians and Medical Group
July 31 - FTC Challenges Physician Group Merger: The Lesson for You
August 31 - How to Control the Context of Negotiation to Maximize your Outcome
September 30 - Far Too “Friendly Physician” to Plead Guilty In $60 Million Healthcare Fraud. Will Murder Charges Follow?
December 31 - False Claims and Faulty Brains: Letting the Fox into the False Claims Act Henhouse
January 31 - Why Your Compliance May Be Worthless
February 28 - TeamHealth Coughs Up $60 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegation
March 31 - 43rd Conviction in Lab Scam Kickback Case: What You Need to Know
April 30 - What You Need to Know About the Bedless Hospital That You Can Build: The Massive Outpatient Center
May 31 - Little Mercy for Mercy Hospital: Government Gets $34 Million Settlement in Whistleblower Case
June 30 - The Medical Group Governance Matrix™
July 31 - What You Need to Know About the Flea That (Metaphorically) Killed the Medical Center CEO
August 31 - The Four Circles
September 29 - State Regulators Take Antitrust Aim at Aggressive Heath System Competition
October 31 - Medical Group and Healthcare Facility: Comfort Zone Or Continued Existence, Your Choice
November 30 - Compliance Risk as Side Effect of the Shift to Outpatient Care
December 31 - From Steelworkers to Surgeons: Gainsharing and Physician Groups
January 29 - Sam Walton's Failure Is a Lesson for Medical Groups
February 29 - Compounding the Kickback Problem
March 31 - Federal Government Sets Clock for Return of Medicare Overpayments: Be Late at Your Own Peril
April 29 - Payors Conducting War Against Out of Network Facilities
June 30 - Major Expansion of False Claims Act
July 29 - iPhone or Pay Phone? HIPAA Business Associate Loses Cell Phone and Pays $650,000 to HHS
August 31 - WalMart and the Expansion of Hospital and Medical Group Liability
September 30 - What You Need to Know About Bedless Hospitals and Your Future
October 31 - Physicians, Pharmacists and Fraudsters Squeezed in Pain Cream Scam
November 30 - Obamacare and Post Election Certainty. Well, More or Less.
December 30 - Hospital Killing Provisions of 21st Century Cures Act Boost Physician Entrepreneurship
January 30 - McDonald's and Delivering Medical Group Value
February 27 - Medical Monopoly Not A Game: Court Shoots Down Hospital - Medical Group Merger
March 31 - For Whom the Whistle Blows
April 30 - Governed or Governed?
May 29 - Have You Made This Mistake Concerning Your Medical Practice?
June 30 - OIG Announces Closer Anti-Kickbacks Scrutiny of Physician Deals
July 31 - Medical Group Officer Goes to Jail: Kickback Arrangement
August 31 - Stranger Whistleblower Case With Lessons for All
October 31 - Are You Ready for the Impact of Telehealth and Telemedicine
November 30 - Do This Whether You're Grooming for Sale or Grooming to Grow
December 31 - Climate Change and Hospital-Controlled Medicine
January 31 - Medical Group Acquisitions and Alternatives
February 28 - Medical Group Acquisitions and Alternatives
March 31 - Hospital Relationships: Understanding the Concept of "Switching Cost"
April 30 - Strategy Before Action or Even Before Talking About it
May 30 - Why You Shouldn't Let History and Momentum Dictate Your Medical Business Structure
June 30 - What Switzerland Teaches Us About Medical Group Structure
July 31 - What's Next? Succession, Sale (or Acquisition), and Strategy
August 29 - Bundled Billing or Bungled Billing?
September 30 - Why Taking Control is A Smart Contracting Tactic
October 31 - Medical Group Mergers: Rushing to the Alter or Altering the Definition?
November 28 - How to Increase Your Income
December 31 - Dear Healthcare Deal, You Are So Attractive! I Need You!