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|Videos|May 26, 2023
Private equity: COVID-19 funding and fraud
Author(s)Richard Payerchin, Logan Lutton
Examining where the money went.
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The U.S. government poured billions of dollars to help physicians, patients, and businesses endure the COVID-19 pandemic. Now there is more scrutiny over how that money was spent. Jolie Apicella, JD, previously worked as an assistant United States attorney and chief of health care fraud in the Eastern District of New York. Now in private practice, in this video series she explains the current regulatory environment and what doctors and investors should consider when joining private equity with medical enterprises.
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