Attention Lab or Pharmacy Sales Reps, Marketing Groups and Call Centers
Attention marketers and sales reps. Is your pharmacy or lab contract 100% EKRA compliant?
You can make your sales referrals via a W2 or with a Safe Harbor legally vetted contracts with multiple labs and/or pharmacies and feel secure. New scar, wellness, and pain formulas. Major Medical and other nationally covered programs. Your physicians can send in lab samples or prescriptions to our partners with confidence.
You can make your sales referrals via a W2 or with a Safe Harbor legally vetted contracts with multiple labs and/or pharmacies and feel secure. New scar, wellness, and pain formulas. Major Medical and other nationally covered programs. Your physicians can send in lab samples or prescriptions to our partners with confidence.
If you are selling lab or pharmacy products that are billed to the US FEDERAL Government FEDERAL Program, you should be aware that some companies are offering or encouraging the following ILLEGAL marketing programs:
- Referral Fees to one patient for referring another patient for a prescription cream
- "Survey Fees" - Payment for filling out a survey or "study" for someone receiving a prescription
- Gift Cards for getting or receiving a prescription or referring another Federal Program Member member
- Marketing the tests and/or creams as "FREE" - They are NOT free. Patients often may need to pay a co-pay even if its $10-20.
- Paying the Co-Pays for (someone else) patients you receive commission on
- Waving the Co-Pay without a proof of financial hardship or the patient signing a hardship form from the pharmacy
- Other Illegal Inducements
All of the above are considered kickbacks by the federal government. Has the pharmacy, lab, or marketing group offering a sales program showed you a letter from a healthcare attorney that it's legal? Have they even told you the name of the lab or pharmacy? Delays in processing orders? Are they secretive? These are all RED FLAGS.
Federal Anti-Kickback Statute Lawsuits, Federal Health Care Program Referral Claim Lawsuits, Federal Health Care Program Medical Supply Bribery Claim Lawsuits, and Benefits for Generating Medicare, Medicaid, Champus/Tricare, and other Federal Health Care Program Lawsuits
The Anti-Kickback statute prohibits any person or business entity from making or accepting payment to induce or reward any person for referring, recommending or arranging for the purchase of any item or service for which payment may be made under a federally-funded health care program. The statute prohibits kickbacks, bribes, inducements, rewards, and other economic incentives that induce physicians to refer patients for services or recommend purchase of medical supplies that will be reimbursable under government health care programs.
Health Care Provider claims for reimbursement to federal health care programs for services or medical supplies that are the result of bribes, kickbacks, or other economic incentives are false claims and are subject to potential Federal Health Care Program False Claim Lawsuits including Federal Anti-Kickback Statute Lawsuits, Federal Health Care Program Referral Claim Lawsuits, and Federal Health Care Program Medical Supply Bribery Claim Lawsuits.
Federal Anti-Kickback Statute Lawsuits, Federal Health Care Program Referral Claim Lawsuits, Federal Health Care Program Medical Supply Bribery Claim Lawsuits, and Benefits for Generating Medicare, Medicaid, Champus/Tricare, and other Federal Health Care Program Lawsuits
The Anti-Kickback statute prohibits any person or business entity from making or accepting payment to induce or reward any person for referring, recommending or arranging for the purchase of any item or service for which payment may be made under a federally-funded health care program. The statute prohibits kickbacks, bribes, inducements, rewards, and other economic incentives that induce physicians to refer patients for services or recommend purchase of medical supplies that will be reimbursable under government health care programs.
Health Care Provider claims for reimbursement to federal health care programs for services or medical supplies that are the result of bribes, kickbacks, or other economic incentives are false claims and are subject to potential Federal Health Care Program False Claim Lawsuits including Federal Anti-Kickback Statute Lawsuits, Federal Health Care Program Referral Claim Lawsuits, and Federal Health Care Program Medical Supply Bribery Claim Lawsuits.
MaxiMed represents and warrants that are, and shall remain in compliance with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations related to the various services to be provided including, without limitation, statutes and regulations related to fraud, abuse, false claims and statements, referrals, prohibition of kickbacks and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
MaxiMed represents, warrants and covenants that as of this date, and in the future with respect to any federal health care program as defined in section 1128B of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320a-7b(f)) or any state health care program as defined in section 1128B of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320a-7(f)(2)), neither MaxiMed, nor its employees or agents have ever been debarred, suspended or excluded from any of such programs. MaxiMed covenants to immediately notify our business partners in writing if this representation is no longer true, or if Maximed is sanctioned or has a civil monetary penalty levied under any such federal or state health care programs.
MaxiMed represents, warrants and covenants that as of this date, and in the future with respect to any federal health care program as defined in section 1128B of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320a-7b(f)) or any state health care program as defined in section 1128B of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320a-7(f)(2)), neither MaxiMed, nor its employees or agents have ever been debarred, suspended or excluded from any of such programs. MaxiMed covenants to immediately notify our business partners in writing if this representation is no longer true, or if Maximed is sanctioned or has a civil monetary penalty levied under any such federal or state health care programs.