Fraud and Abuse: DOJ's Telemedicine Fraud Crackdown—What Providers Need to Know

In this episode of AHLA's monthly series on fraud and abuse issues, Matthew Wetzel, Associate General Counsel, Compliance Officer, GRAIL, speaks to John Kelly, Managing Partner, Bass Berry & Sims, about the government’s recent crackdown on telemedicine schemes, specifically schemes in which telemedicine companies work with physicians to write medically unnecessary orders without appropriate patient evaluation. They discuss DOJ’s specific allegations, how physicians were pulled into these schemes and the consequences they faced, and the lessons that providers can learn from these types of schemes. From AHLA's Fraud and Abuse Practice Group. Sponsored by BRG.Essential Legal Updates, Now in AudioAHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal EducationLearn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.