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HHS warns about suspect 'contractual joint ventures'. (Little Provider Input a Red Flag).(Health and Human Services)

Publication: Skin & Allergy News

Publication Date: 01-JUN-03

Author: Frieden, Joyce
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COPYRIGHT 2003 International Medical News Group

WASHINGTON -- Physicians who have recently started joint ventures in their offices, beware: The Department of Health and Human Services may be taking a special interest in you.

The department's Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released a special advisory bulletin on the issue of "contractual joint ventures." The report defines joint ventures rather broadly as "any common enterprise with mutual economic benefit." But it focuses on what it calls "questionable contractual arrangements," in which a health care provider in one line of business...

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