A mother-daughter-owned pharmacy paid kickbacks and bribes to marketing and telemedicine companies in exchange for referring Medicare beneficiaries for expensive durable medical equipment (DME) and prescriptions for pharmaceutical medication, which […]

According to a 2021 study by the Association of Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR), it takes about 248 days to fill an open physician-specialist position and 207 days to […]

Patients in the US have been pining for greater affordability and efficiency in healthcare.[1]The ambulatory surgery center (ASC) model has become an alternative to inpatient hospitals over the last few […]

Many MSA fee structures are based on a cost-plus fee structure.  And often times the MSO cannot accurately forecast the expenses of providing management services. So one question is whether […]

HVG has come across some existing lease arrangements where the lease rate was calculated based on the fair or desired rate of return to the lessor/landlord or owner of the […]

There are a number of arrangements that require not only an opinion of the FMV rate in terms of dollars but also an estimate of time, cost, or some other […]

There’s been quite a bit of FMV compliance concern and awareness lately surrounding health care professionals (HCPs) providing services to life sciences companies with respect to FMV compensation and commercial […]

Based on a cursory review of the latest MGMA physician compensation and productivity survey data, physician productivity increased sharply in 2021 from 2020 and has rebounded to levels prior to […]

Recently, the DOJ expressed its renewed enforcement action against COVID-19-related fraud with the creation of the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force.  https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-announces-task-force-combat-covid-19-fraud  Most of the DOJ’s enforcement activity to date […]