COURT CHILLS RELIANCE POD ALERT CHALLENGE (Orthopedics This Week)
Chill out, dude, and don’t bleed until you’re shot!
That’s in essence what a federal court in California told Reliance Medical Systems, LLC, on February 5, 2014, as it dismissed the company’s constitutional challenge to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) March 26, 2013 Special Fraud Alert (Alert) on physician-owned distributors (PODs).
Reliance, which used to be involved in PODs, argued that the Alert “chilled” their right to speak to physicians about ownership in PODs. Reliance...
