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Get the 4-1-1 on your 1099s: 5th and 7th Circuits Permit Paying Volume-Based Compensation to Independent Sales Agents

FDA Law Blog

Regulatory Framework The AKS makes it a criminal felony to knowingly and willfully offer or pay any remuneration, directly or indirectly, to induce a person to order or refer patients for medical care that is reimbursable under a federal healthcare program (e.g., Medicare or Medicaid). Marchetti , 96 F.4th 4th 818 (5th Cir.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

In order to heal her patients she first had to heal her ailing profession. And this is a medical system that needs to be disrupted because our medical system (as you know) is endangering the lives of patients right now—and physicians. I was suicidal myself as a physician and I survived that in 2004. I give you Dr. Pamela Wible.

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