Quote of the Day

“For hospitals, [the arrest of an orthopedic surgeon for billing Medicare and Medicaid for implanting devices he never implanted in patients] is a compelling and alarming scenario because no hospital wants to have any inference that a physician on their medical staff has not performed procedures that patients believed were performed. It would compel hospitals to undertake their own evaluation of the circumstances — not to be prosecutors, but to really undertake a clinical quality assurance review that is necessary to ensure they have effective protocols in place.”



— Kathleen McDermott, a former federal prosecutor who is now with Morgan Lewis in Washington, D.C., told AIS’s Report on Medicare Compliance.