tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 16

ENFORCEMENT WATCH: DOJ Says WV Hospitals Too Close For Comfort

Why being bosom buddies with another facility is unlikely to result in good times.Hospitals should tread carefully when making agreements with other facilities, or they might land on the Department of Justice's (DOJ) choppiing block.Here's why:  The DOJ  recently ended an "illegal" patient-swapping agreement between two West Virginia hospitals, Bluefield Regional Medical Center, Inc. (BRMC) and Princeton Community Hospital Association, Inc. (PCH), according to a department press release.Struck on Jan. 30, 2003, the agreement called for BRMC to offer its cancer treatment services to PCH, and in return, PCH would offer its cardiac surgery services to...

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