A doctor called and asked: Is it true that providers would get in trouble for not purchasing services from a seminar speaker should federal investigators look at them. The caller added that the speaker told the seminar audience he provides the list of seminar attendees to the FBI and that if one of the attendees was investigated by the Fed's it would be used against them if they were at his seminar but did not purchase his services.


I have provided training to health care providers in excess of 10 years and I have never given or been asked by law enforcers for a list of attendees. But this speaker could in fact be giving his attendee list to the FBI - I don't know. And, for more than twenty years I have been in investigations and I could see, with my investigator hat on, how law enforcers could use this info for intelligence purposes but the info, in of itself, would be of minimal value unless there were suspicions that a doctor having attended the seminar was engaged in misconduct, and then it could be used in developed fraud cases with established evidence to support that violations of law were done purposefully - where the list could be used to show the provider knew what they were doing was wrong and that they purposefully engaged in criminal conduct.