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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

2004) , the court distinguished between violative arrangements in which the sales agent has authority to select a provider and thereby earn compensation, and permissible ones in which a sales agent (in that case, agents promoting a home health agency to physicians) had no authority to select the provider. Miles , 360 F.3d 3d 472 (5thCir.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

I was suicidal myself as a physician and I survived that in 2004. I assume most of you in here are not super specialized doing lung transplants and needing a helipad and tertiary-care hospital. I mean they had to somehow charge her something so this town in Westerlo, New York made her a special deal, a dollar/year.

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