Ever wish your surgery center could bill at higher hospital rates? If you're joint-ventured with a hospital, you can: your ASC provides the services, but the hospital bills and collects the higher reimbursements, then pays you. If that sounds too good to be true, it just might be. While your bottom line would grow, you'd risk running afoul of the Anti-kickback Statute, Stark, the IRS and the False Claims Act.
