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Loan Closets, Employee Liaisons, and Other Arrangements with Referral Sources

Presented by: Jeffrey Baird, Esq., of Brown & Fortunato and Noel Neil of ACU-Serve

In the non-health care world, businesses (e.g., auto parts stores) have very few restrictions regarding their relationships with referral sources. By contrast, the health care world is a totally different animal. Because a large portion of a DME supplier’s revenue is derived directly (or indirectly) from tax dollars, there are myriad federal and state laws designed to protect the tax dollars from fraud. Many of these laws focus on relationships health care providers have with physicians, hospitals, and other referral sources. This program will discuss such relationships between DME suppliers and referral sources.

These arrangements include (i) loan closets (also known as consignment closets and stock and bill arrangements), (ii) employee liaisons, (iii) Medical Director Agreements, (iv) physician advisory boards, (v) preferred provider agreements, (vi) patient service agreements, (vii) marketing service arrangements, and (viii) subcontract agreements. The program will discuss how these relationships can be legally entered into…and pitfalls that need to be avoided.