Vie Healthcare

MAY 4, 2023

And as you know, obviously a huge percentage of healthcare spending is funded through Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, the VA system, and these are all programs that are covered by the False Claims Act. It’s a highly regulated industry. Not one of those people who comes from a family of doctors or anything like that either.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nursing Hospitals Doctors 52

KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Federal regulators, meanwhile, are almost blind to the incursion, since private equity typically acquires practices and hospitals below the regulatory radar. One doctor admitted prescribing the creams to scores of patients he had never seen, examined, or even spoken to, according to the suit. “It is a more efficient way to do it.”

Doctors 145

Doctors Tricare Medicaid Medical Services 145

KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Federal regulators, meanwhile, are almost blind to the incursion, since private equity typically acquires practices and hospitals below the regulatory radar. One doctor admitted prescribing the creams to scores of patients he had never seen, examined, or even spoken to, according to the suit. “It is a more efficient way to do it.”

Doctors 52

Doctors Tricare Medicaid Medical Services 52