POD Primer: Some Physician-Owned Device Distributors Can Pass Muster
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The best physician-owned distributors “do not bill Medicare at all,” POD-supporter Truhe said at a May 21 meeting. Instead, the distributors can sell a variety of implantable devices to hospitals, without steering the hospital to buy just one manufacturer’s wares.
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