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Attorney Carrie Valiant has been safeguarding health care and life sciences organizations from fraud and abuse and government payment program enforcement challenges since civil and criminal investigations in health care became ...
Many health care providers rely on a worked relative value unit ("wRVU") based compensation model when structuring financial relationships with physicians. While wRVUs are considered an objective and fair method to compensate physicians, payments made on a wRVU basis do not always offer a blanket protection from liability under the Federal Stark Law. As recent settlements demonstrate, wRVU based compensation arrangements that are poorly structured or improperly implemented can result in significant liability.
The wRVU physician compensation model is particularly favored ...
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