How to Prevent Healthcare Enforcement Actions

The DOJ just announced its biggest healthcare enforcement action in history. Compliance personnel will definitely want to know the details since over 100 physicians, nurses or other clinicians were individually indicted.

You’ve probably seen the headlines: More than 400 people across the country have been charged with participating in healthcare fraud scams totaling about $1.3 billion in false billings, many for the prescription and distribution of opioids.

Some other charges involve:

• An anesthesiologist’s involvement in hospice care that got him in hot water
• A Florida podiatrist’s coding that resulted in charges against him
• An inappropriate use of a dermatology skin substitute that led to trouble

• And, a drug rehabilitation facility that allegedly ran like a rap video. They allegedly recruited addicts with gift cards, drugs and visits to strip clubs, then billed the government for over $58 million in false treatments and tests.

  Wow, I know.

  We can protect our own organizations by examining some of these cases to understand what went wrong and what could have been done to prevent these things from happening in the first place.

  So, tune in to my free webinar, Lessons From a $1.3 Billion Fraud Bust, and let’s talk about how we can learn from their (bad) examples.