…for procedures they prescribe such as MRI’s, CT scans, etc?
With outside agencies offering these same services, it seems possible that hospitals would respond to the competition with $ rewards. My question is, do they?
And how do the pharmaceutical companies take care of doctors who are high volume prescribers of their medications?
Maybe the mod will put it right.
Sorry.
I never got any extra bux or other bennies from ordering tests at a hospital or using a lot of a particular drug company’s drug other than some free pens and sticky pads from the drug company.
Some docs get nice speaking stipends to go around and give lectures that mention a drug company’s drug, but the vast majority of docs in the trenches don’t get much in the way of freebies anymore.
It’s actually illegal for a physician to take a monetary award from a facility for sending patients there. I can’t think of the exact law off the top of my head, but it’ll probably come to me later, when I’m nowhere near a computer. This website explains the issues and resolution better than I can.
Robin
I believe it is the Stark Law.
Short answer. No cuts unless they are patients on the table. Illegal.
But they can form “Physician hospital organizations” that share a common busines interest so long as there is quid pro quo WRT compensation.
Genuinely reassuring answers
Thank you, one and all.