Making them pay. High-cost of healthcare reform is fueling more fraud enforcement, putting hospitals, physicians, other providers on notice.
The feds are playing hardball when it comes to healthcare fraud, and physicians and executives are feeling the heat, along with hospitals and systems. "Under the anti-kickback statute and Stark self-referral law, it takes two to tango. When we're doing our analysis of the fraud problem, we have come to recognize we're only going to get our arms around this if we address both parties to the scheme," says HHS' Lewis Morris, left.
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