Hi!
Check out
http://www.ocala.com/article/20100627/articles/6271008 and note the following:
Federal agencies are looking into the growing trend of physician groups utilizing an exemption in anti-kickback law to their advantage.
The Stark Law, created in the early 1990s, was designed to prevent doctors from self-referring patients for service. The in-office ancillary service exception was created so doctors could provide same-day services for efficient patient care.
This group of urologists and their practices are taking advantage of this "loophole" in order to get the most lucrative payments from Medicare and potentially subjecting their patients to radiation they do not need in order to make this profit. They are frightened of what Moffitt represents - objective, world-class treatments by a Cancer Center that is listed in the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a comprehensive cancer center (the only one listed in the state of Florida). If I had a choice of hospitals, treatment centers, and doctors, I would go to Moffitt and not Boissoneault and their doctors who just want patients to undergo their extremely expensive treatment for prostate cancer.
I applaud the Morse family for not buying what Boissoneault is selling and instead getting us a facility that is world-class and will provide us the best care with the most convenience.
Best,
Vi