> Doctors are incentivized to prescribe treatments, because that's how they make money for themselves and their practice.
This is literally illegal! Physicians cannot refer patients to entities they own or have an interest in.
What is perverse is that, while we have the Stark Law to constrain physician behavior, we've decided that it's okay if a diffuse group like a non-physician-owned hospital chain enforces rules to this effect.
This is literally illegal! Physicians cannot refer patients to entities they own or have an interest in.
What is perverse is that, while we have the Stark Law to constrain physician behavior, we've decided that it's okay if a diffuse group like a non-physician-owned hospital chain enforces rules to this effect.