Anti-kickback statute

Often, health care providers do not even realize how marketing arrangements can violate the Anti-Kickback Statute and other state marketing/brokering laws. It is completely natural for health care providers to market; they need to get business and establish referral relationships with other practitioners. With this, health care professionals often rely on marketing companies, MSOs (management services organization), pharmaceutical companies, or referral entities that represent that an agreement is compliant with such statutes a provider will not have checked by an attorney.