tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 15

Hospitals: HOSPITAL-PHYSICIAN BUSINESS DEALS UNDER SCRUTINY

Heads up hospitals and physicians: The feds are looking ever more closely at medical group-hospital business arrangements and if they suspect a deal may not be kosher, the costs can be huge. Just last month, for example, the 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 like the HHS Office of Inspector General is casting its gaze on a quintet of facilities owned by hospital giant Tenet Health-care Corp. The company admitted April 17 that the OIG has served it with...

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