Corporate Compliance: United States v. Greber and United States v. McClatchey Cases

In any corporate setting, relating to the business environment is an essential part of maintaining relationships with stakeholders. The exchange of money during transactions define a significant portion of ethical standards, with the Medicare program emerging as a platform for discussing fraud and financial abuse of professional capacity. The cases of Greber and McClatchey offer a basis for the evaluation of the provisions that illegalize some of these transactions to be carried out outside ethical practices. These cases illustrate how medical personnel contravenes the moral obligations to observe Medicare requirements and social security laws. With consideration of biblical inferences and the legislation designed to prevent such fraudulent and dishonest transactions, this discussion examines morality involved in business relationships and corporate compliance.

Jesus’ teachings recommend that physicians should serve the sick without focusing on the patient’s ability to pay. From the cases examined by scholars, biblical inferences regarding the integrity of the judgments in both court cases are scrutinized and discussion points related to the subject abstracted. From the examples of individuals who failed to follow such guidelines, the Holy Bible is used for the evaluation of the fraudulence, unethical, and improper operation of businesses. However, there exists a debate regarding the nature of the unethical practices provisioned in law due to their immoderation and strictness. Using examples in a practical environment allows the paper to interact with both theoretical and real-world scenarios that raise ethical questions. As such, the discussion not only examines the expectations by the law but also considers the practicality of the practices within a business environment with dynamic operational factors.

United States v. Greber

Case Brief

In the above case, a physician, Dr. Alvin Greber, sought payment for services rendered to patients by recording their cardiac activity on tape and paid his peers a portion of the money for referrals. A forty-percentage reimbursement to other physicians was beyond the allowance by Medicare (United States v. Greber, 1985). Greber’s validation of these fees was based on the claim that the physicians offered interpretative services regardless of the evidence that Cardio-Med’s (defendant’s company) billing records indicated that they had already evaluated the device data.

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