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tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 8
FRAUD & ABUSE: Physician Deals With Hospitals Are Under Scrutiny
If your practice is working with a hospital, you may be in for scrutiny from the feds. Just last month, the U.S. Department of Justice scored the largest settlement ever under the Stark physician self-referral law, securing $6.5 million from a South Dakota hospital. Now it looks as if the HHS Office of Inspector General is casting its gaze on a quintet of facilities owned by hospital giant Tenet Healthcare Corp. The company admitted April 17 that the OIG has served it with a civil subpoena seeking information relating to agreements five Tenet hospitals had with the...
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