By Robert Threlkeld and Edgar Bueno ( May 30, 2017, 12:22 PM EDT) -- A recent settlement underscores often unexpected challenges of converting physician group compensation plans to hospital employment under compliant Stark Law exceptions. Last week, the government announced that it was intervening in — and settling for $34 million — a case brought against Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Missouri by a medical oncologist who had been employed by an affiliated physician group. United States, ex rel. Holden v. Mercy Hospital Springfield, Case No. 15-03283-DGK (W.D. Mo.). ...
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