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R E Mazer

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PubMed1995

Avoiding physician compensation problems.

Hospitals and other healthcare organizations traditionally have been free to structure compensation arrangements with physician employees without governmental interference. However, recent changes in how the statute prohibiting kickbacks has been interpreted and new self-referral legislation indicate that the days of unfettered discretion have come to an end. These changes create new pitfalls for healthcare organizations that seek to employ physicians to provide care as part of integrated delivery systems.

Ancillary Services, Hospital↗
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National Health Laboratories settlement raises unresolved legal issues.

The government's prosecution of National Health Laboratories indicates that clinical laboratories may be held legally accountable for billing for unnecessary services when the lack of medical necessity is known. A laboratory's legal risk increases significantly when the laboratory induces physicians to order unnecessary tests. Clinical laboratories must scrutinize their marketing activities--particularly those related to custom profiles--to ensure they do not mislead physicians into ordering tests that are not required.

Clinical Laboratory Techniques↗
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Regulation in review. Payment reform likely to continue for clinical laboratory services.

Payment for clinical laboratory services has been at the forefront of Medicare payment reform. Significant changes are likely to continue. These changes may eliminate the well-established practice of selling laboratory services to physicians at discount prices and may require laboratories to compete for the opportunity to participate in managed-care arrangements that result from federal health-care reform. Laboratories should restructure, as necessary, to ensure that they can provide testing at the lowest possible cost and to otherwise prepare for health policy changes.

Clinical Laboratory Techniques↗