Mary Jean Geroulo (Partner-Dallas) discusses the recent growth in physicians contracting with "sham MSOs" in "Not All Management Service Organizations Are Created Equal," featured in the September 2016 issue of Compliance Today, a publication of the Health Care Compliance Association. Over the past several years, according to Mary Jean, there has been a tremendous growth in physician-owned organizations that contract with health care entities other than medical practices, many of them arguably nothing more than a mechanism by which the owner-physicians can capture a share of revenue derived from their orders or referrals to the contracted entity.
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