The trial began for the now-closed Forest Park Medical Center in February, according to D Magazine.
Here are six takeaways from the trial:
1. Forest Park Medical Center Dallas was a physician-owned surgical hospital that operated as an out-of-network facility.
2. The government has accused the physicians and others of paying and receiving over $40 million in kickbacks and bribes for patient referrals.
3. The scheme included various purported sham marketing services agreements in which money was paid by Forest Park Medical Center Dallas to entities owned or controlled by the physicians in exchange for their patient referrals.
4. The government has also accused the defendants of fraudulent behavior by inducing patients to use its out-of-network facility by waiving or substantially reducing coinsurance or patient-responsibility and concealing this from the patients' payers.
5. The government has also implicated those involved with violations under the Travel Act for interstate commerce, according to an article published in D Magazine.
6. At trial, the government's valuation expert testified that specific marketing services agreements were not commercially reasonable and that the fair market value of the services could not be reasonably determined.
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