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The Resurgence of the Ambulatory Surgery Center: Seven Considerations for Ownership

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After a prolonged period of stagnant growth primarily due to a glut of capacity coupled with flat or declining revenue growth, we’re beginning to see a resurgence of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs). In fact, experts are...more

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Finance Committee Report Places Medical Device Arrangements under Increasing Scrutiny

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Hospitals and providers participating in physician-owned distributorships, or “PODs” may be at increased risk for government investigation or enforcement. A Senate Finance Committee (SFC) Report issued this month highlights...more

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Senate Finance Committee Updates Report on Physician-Owned Distributorships

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The report finds that PODs increase overutilization, lack transparency, and increase the risk of patient harm and warns that hospitals must combat the growing threat of PODs. On May 10, the US Senate Committee on Finance...more

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Department of Justice Files First False Claims Act Lawsuit Against Physician-Owned Distributorship

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On Sept. 8, 2014, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a 98-page civil complaint alleging that investment returns, paid to a Michigan spinal surgeon and other physicians by a spinal implant company partially...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

2013 – The Health Law Year in Review

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As 2013 draws to a close, we are pleased to look back on the year that was and highlight some of the key developments in the ever-changing field of health law. While a great deal of attention was focused on the implementation...more

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OIG Report Concludes that Physician-owned Distributors Increase Utilization

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In response to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance’s continued questioning of physician-owned distributorships (PODs), the U.S. Department Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General issued its long-awaited...more

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Court Sides With CMS Stark Regulations on Physician-Owned Under Arrangement Service Providers

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On May 24, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Council for Urological Interests v. Sebelius1 (‘‘CUI’’) sided with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in a lawsuit brought by a group of urologists...more

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OIG Calls PODs "Inherently Suspect"

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Making its most strongly worded statement to date, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Special Fraud Alert on Physician-Owned Entities on March 26, 2013, calling...more

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