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Articles By jaun paul
Health Care Professionals Ask Ftc To Count Them Out
By: jaun paul
American Bar Association (ABA) has won a lawsuit against Federal Trade Commission that will exclude ABA members from Red Flags Rule enforcement. And now health care provider trade groups are following suit and giving examples of ABA’s victory in order to gain their own exclusion from the rule(read
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Oig Seeks Increased Funds For Health Care Fraud Detection
By: jaun paul
Over the past year, the OIG has been on a roll, with no intentions to slow down anytime soon. To help its efforts, the agency has requested an additional $41.5 million from the 2011 federal budget.(read
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Stay Away From ‘double Billing' When Engaged In This Radiology Procedure
By: jaun paul
If one physician interprets a test and provides a report outlining the result, no other physician can bill for the same service. This would constitute double-billing.(read
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Physicians To Be Affected By Oig's Idtfs And Emtala
By: jaun paul
Physicians take notice. The OIG’s 2010 Work Plan is full of clear enforcement and compliance goals that will certainly affect you.(read
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Home Health Compliance: Insulin Injection Rules You Should Know
By: jaun paul
CMS covers assisted insulin injections when a patient can’t self-inject insulin and there’s no family member or caregiver to lend a helping hand, by the top priority payments for OIG as per the 2010 Work Plan.(read
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Medicare Administrative Contractors
By: jaun paul
MACs may repeal your billing rights if it catches you with the wrong address.(read
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Fera Widens Fca's Reach In Subcontracting
By: jaun paul
As part of the follow-on to the 2009 stimulus package, Congress passed the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act (FERA), which widens the FCA’s reach in three critical aspects - subcontracting, Medicaid, and over payments - that providers need to train eyes on.(read
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Stark's Take On Gifts To Referring Physicians
By: jaun paul
Gifts to physicians who can potentially refer Medicare or Medicaid patients to your practice or health care body can run afoul of Stark and anti-kickback laws.(read
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Hospitals, Physicians Can Take Some ‘stark' Lessons From Covenant Case
By: jaun paul
Stark law governs hospitals and physicians self-referral for Medicare and Medicaid patients. According to the US government, Covenant submitted false claims to Medicare because it had overpaid five employed physicians who referred patients to the hospital for services – a verboten practice under the physician self-referral.(read
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Slippery Stark Rules? Learn From The Mistakes Of Others
By: jaun paul
There’s a lot that your hospital can learn from the mistakes of others, especially those relating to slippery Stark rules.(read
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