After our recent presentation, Physician Owner Mindset, Compliance Guardrails: Growth Without the Gotchas, at the American Alliance of Orthopaedic Executives on April 21, we wanted to share some practical insights on incentive design, deal structure, and how these issues surface in transactions and enforcement—key topics we touched on in our discussion. We think you will find these articles beneficial in navigating the ever-changing landscape you face (alternate: the industry faces) today.
This is the sixth and final installment in a six-part series on incentive design, deal structure, and how these issues surface in transactions and enforcement. Other relevant topics will be discussed in our upcoming presentation, Physician Owner Mindset, Compliance Guardrails: Growth Without the Gotchas, to be given at the American Alliance of Orthopaedic Executives on Tuesday, April 21.
This is the fifth in a six-part series on incentive design, deal structure, and how these issues surface in transactions and enforcement. Other relevant topics will be discussed in our upcoming presentation, Physician Owner Mindset, Compliance Guardrails: Growth Without the Gotchas, to be given at the American Alliance of Orthopaedic Executives on Tuesday, April
This is the fourth in a six-part series on incentive design, deal structure, and how these issues surface in transactions and enforcement. Other relevant topics will be discussed in our upcoming presentation, Physician Owner Mindset, Compliance Guardrails: Growth Without the Gotchas, to be given at the American Alliance of Orthopaedic Executives on Tuesday, April 21.
This is the third in a six-part series on incentive design, deal structure, and how these issues surface in transactions and enforcement. Other relevant topics will be discussed in our upcoming presentation, Physician Owner Mindset, Compliance Guardrails: Growth Without the Gotchas, to be given at the American Alliance of Orthopaedic Executives on Tuesday, April 21.
Deal teams spend months building a story.
Quality of earnings.
Payer mix.
Capacity.
Growth.
The story lives in a deck, a model, and a set of emails. The material is often pulled together fast, under deadlines. It gets recycled and edited by multiple people.
A single loose phrase can change how a buyer views risk, how counsel drafts reps, and how quickly a process moves.
In some cases, it reads as if the business plan depends on referrals.
That is avoidable.
This is the second in a six-part series on incentive design, deal structure, and how these issues surface in transactions and enforcement. Other relevant topics will be discussed in our upcoming presentation, Physician Owner Mindset, Compliance Guardrails: Growth Without the Gotchas, to be given at the American Alliance of Orthopaedic Executives on Tuesday, April 21.
Productivity-based compensation is common in physician organizations. It is also where many problems begin.
Start with the formula. Then focus on the carve-outs, the discretionary payments, and the year-end cleanups.
This is the first in a six-part series on incentive design, deal structure, and how these issues surface in transactions and enforcement. Other relevant topics will be discussed in our upcoming presentation, Physician Owner Mindset, Compliance Guardrails: Growth Without the Gotchas, to be given at the American Alliance of Orthopaedic Executives on Tuesday, April 21.
On July 2, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the creation of the DOJ-HHS False Claims Act Working Group, a high-level interagency initiative aimed at strengthening the government’s civil enforcement of the False Claims Act (FCA) in the healthcare space. While the DOJ and HHS have long worked together to combat fraud, this Working Group marks a formalized, tightly coordinated effort focused on high-impact enforcement areas.
On March 7, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) had initiated four investigations into unnamed medical schools and hospitals over allegations that the schools and hospitals “discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, or sex” by continuing to implement “DEI” programs.
This blog post explains what HHS OCR is investigating, what laws are at issue, and what those operating medical schools and hospitals with DEI programs should consider, given this and other federal attention to DEI.
On February 25, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a False Claims Act (FCA) complaint against an Idaho home health agency and its owner, alleging that a series of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan applications were fraudulent because the home health agency did not disclose in the applications that the home health agency was making improper claims to Idaho Medicaid at the time it applied for the loans.