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Strategic Recommendation for Scenario A. Offer one specific strategic recommendation for the health care organization to handle this scenario.  For your recommendation, explain how your recommendation addresses the most important legal issue.

Legal & Ethical Analysis, and Strategic Implications: Scenario C Read the following article from Health Watch: HealthWatch Why tough to reduce unnecessary medical care.pdf

Key legal issue, concepts, and relevant key fact for each concept, for Scenario A (Beginning in 2015, senior management at Scrubs Health System embarked on a scheme to recruit physicians for employment for the purpose of capturing their lucrative “downstream referrals.” Scrubs successfully recruited hundreds of local physicians, including cardiovascular specialists, neurosurgeons, and breast surgeons, by paying them salaries that were significantly higher – sometimes as much as double – than what they were receiving in their own private practices. Scrubs hired a valuation firm to analyze the compensation it proposed paying to its recruited specialists. Scrubs knowingly provided the firm with false compensation figures so that the firm would render a favorable opinion. The Complaint further alleged that Scrubs ignored repeated warnings from the valuation firm regarding the legal perils of overcompensating its physicians. Scrubs then submitted claims to Medicare for services that resulted from referrals from these recruited physicians.)  Identify the most important health law issue, the key requirements / legal concepts for the most important issue as represented here, and a key fact related to each legal concept.

Phil Von Guire, M.D. is licensed to practice medicine in the State of Minnesota.  He recently reconnected with Salma Soule, Esq., his college girlfriend and a recovering lawyer who is interested in starting a technology enhanced, senior living and health care residential facility (the “Business”).  Salma proposed the following terms of the Business as follows: Salma would own 95% of the voting equity of the Business.  The remaining 5% of the equity and 100% of the voting rights would be owned by Dr. Von Guire and other licensed physicians.  Physicians who promise to provide the most referrals for health care services would receive more equity (and on preferred terms) in the Business than those physicians who refuse to promise any significant referrals.  Dr. Von Guire would serve as Chief Medical Officer and Chief Operating Officer of the Business.  As compensation for his services, he could be paid as follows: (a) he would receive a 10% of the profits of the Business and (b) a special bonus for all patients he personally refers to the Business or one of its affiliated entities.  The Business would pay chiropractors $25 for each patient referred to the Business for Medicare covered services.

A laboratory company offered and paid remuneration to physicians to induce the ordering of pharmacogenetic tests, in exchange for laboratory referrals for pharmacogenetic testing and for furnishing and billing for tests paid for, in part, by Federal health programs, that were not medically necessary, purportedly in return for their participation in a clinical trial.

Which virus is considered an important factor in the pathogenesis of cervical cancer?

Select the statement that best describes the underlying pathophysiology of Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause (GSM)?

A patient presents to the emergency department with acute upper right quadrant pain, nausea, and anorexia. In addition to the clinical exam, which diagnostic test is most useful for diagnosing acute cholecystitis?

Select the statement that best describes the pathophysiology of acute appendicitis?