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To Stay On Right Side Of Referral Relationships, Here’s What Home-Based Care Providers Should Know

Home Health Care

However, providers need to be sure they’re not running afoul of the federal laws, or the state law equivalents, that regulate the financial relationships between agencies and their referral sources.

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Exposing Healthcare Fraud with Jonathan Tycko| E. 68

Vie Healthcare

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.

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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

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.”

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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

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.”

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