Physicians Failing To Disclose Supplier, POD Arrangements Fuel Kickback Concerns, Senators Say

US Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Wyden want the Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to carefully scrutinize physician-owned distributorships’ (PODs) disclosures about financial arrangements to see if they trigger violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute.

A POD is an arrangement in which a physician purchases ownership shares in an entity that supplies medical products to the physician’s own practice, including implantable medical devices