Doctors doing there own Orthotics and Prosthetics
Eric Eisenberg
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Title:
Doctors doing there own Orthotics and Prosthetics
Creator:
Eric Eisenberg
Date:
9/1/2011
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Dear List,
Please provide input regarding the following ie: is this legal/ethical:
In our area we seem to have O and P companies who have their own clinics going around setting up additional clinics in physicians offices where the physician is highly compensated for all referrals. I don't know the specifics but what I gather is the way around the stark violations and anti kickback statute is they set up a practice owned by the physician. The O an P guys then lease themselves to the physician owned O and P practice and are compensated by the physician for their services. Since the physician owns the practice no referral is being made. Is anyone familiar with such arrangements? Can anything be done about such arrangements? Is this where O and P is heading either you work for a physician or you pay the physician for referrals? We have all seen Orthopedists who have bracing specialists in there offices, now its prosthetics how will honest O and P practices survive?
Eric S. Eisenberg M.S.: C.P.O.
BioTech Limb and Brace LLC
Please provide input regarding the following ie: is this legal/ethical:
In our area we seem to have O and P companies who have their own clinics going around setting up additional clinics in physicians offices where the physician is highly compensated for all referrals. I don't know the specifics but what I gather is the way around the stark violations and anti kickback statute is they set up a practice owned by the physician. The O an P guys then lease themselves to the physician owned O and P practice and are compensated by the physician for their services. Since the physician owns the practice no referral is being made. Is anyone familiar with such arrangements? Can anything be done about such arrangements? Is this where O and P is heading either you work for a physician or you pay the physician for referrals? We have all seen Orthopedists who have bracing specialists in there offices, now its prosthetics how will honest O and P practices survive?
Eric S. Eisenberg M.S.: C.P.O.
BioTech Limb and Brace LLC
Citation
Eric Eisenberg, “Doctors doing there own Orthotics and Prosthetics,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 24, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/232926.
