Red Flags for Physicians Considering Paid Speaking Engagements
In December 2022, a Sarasota, Florida, pain management physician was sentenced to three years and six months in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $278,900 in kickbacks and bribes. According to evidence presented at trial, in less than three years, the physician’s prescriptions for Subsys, a fentanyl sublingual spray used to relieve breakthrough pain in cancer patients, had amounted to over $4.5 million in Medicare Part D payments to Insys Therapeutics, Inc., the drug’s ma
Dec 27, 2022
Valuing Healthcare Non-Compete Covenants
Healthcare noncompete laws have been in the news recently as a widespread revision process appears to be underway. In 2022, 30 bills have...
Dec 8, 2022
CMS's 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: How Will it Affect Your Physician Compensation Plan?
In November, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the finalized Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for 2023. With the release, CMS executes the second phase of its broader initiative to overhaul its coding and payment policies for evaluation and management (E&M) services. Two years ago, the agency significantly modified the current procedural terminology (CPT) for office visit E&Ms, which included changing the coding guidelines to allow providers to
Dec 5, 2022
