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OIG audit finds Medicare could have saved up to $ 215.8 million over 5 years. Drug testing is generally performed to detect the presence or absence of drugs in patients undergoing treatment for pain management or substance use disorders. There are two types of drug testing: presumptive and definitive. A presumptive drug test identifies whether drugs […]
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More than $ 14.4 million in inaccurate payments were made to Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations due to the submission of incorrect acute stroke diagnosis codes by traditional Medicare providers, as per an audit performed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG). According to the Sept. 16 report, the overpayments […]
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An OIG review shows Medicare overpaid outpatient hospitals as much as $ 25.8 million for complex simulations billed during audit period. Between 2013 and 2015, Medicare paid 1,193 hospitals $ 109,197,933 in bundled payments for intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) — about $ 25,754,171 more than they should have, according to the Office of Inspector General (OIG). The […]
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A medical review conducted by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) found 61 percent of claims (out of 300 sampled) for outpatient physical therapy services did not comply with Medicare medical necessity, coding, or documentation requirements. Although the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) generally disagreed with OIG’s findings, a review of the requirements […]
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There has been growth seen in the world in the last decade as compared to the previous five decades. And one of these fields is Affordable Medical Transcription. Medical transcription is basically transcribing the voice of a patients reports that have been made by different specialist doctors and other medical experts in a textual format. Now some of these reports are also present in the form of written data. All of it is converted to electronic data for storage and retrieval at any point of time as and when it may be required for reference or other purposes. If you are on the lookout Affordable medical transcription then the best option is to outsource it. This will save you a considerable amount of time as well as money in the long term.
One of the most outsourced jobs is that of medical transcription. This is mainly because it saves both time as well as money and helps reducing the burden of maintaining big physical records of medical records and documents. Affordable Medical Transcription is seldom possible if it is done in-house. This is because it requires a lot of expensive equipment such as dictation machines and also the recruiting, training and maintenance of the staff required for the job. This consumes valuable resources and increases the operating costs drastically. Also, the medical practitioners if relived from these time-consuming tasks then they can devote a lot more time to more important core activities such as ensuring optimum health care and better treatments for patients and more productivity of the entire health care center as a whole.
However one may see it, if one wants to enjoy the benefits Affordable Medical Transcription, outsourcing is the best option. Not only does it save money and time but is also very accurate as the quality control checks are very stringent and most of the outsourcing firms are HIPAA compliant which reassures the same.
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LOUISVILLE, KY – MD2U Holding Company, including its related companies and individually named owners (“Defendants”), have agreed to pay millions to resolve a government lawsuit alleging that they violated the federal False Claims Act by knowingly submitting false medical claims to Medicare and other government health care programs, altering records to support false claims, and providing services that were medically unnecessary U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. today announced….
MD2U also utilized an electronic medical records (EMR) system that permitted the NPPs to easily electronically cut, copy and paste medical notes from prior visits. The ability to migrate notes from visits that occurred weeks, months, or even years prior to the current patient encounter created the illusion that MD2U’s NPPs were performing a significant amount of work during their patient encounters when, in fact, they were not. If the documentation was deficient to bill the highest level code, MD2U would direct NPPs to go back and change the medical record – after the encounter had occurred – to falsely show that more work was performed during the visit in order to support the highest level billing.
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Gregory D. Toran, 67, of Hazel Crest in the Chicago area has been convicted by U.S. District Judge Sue Myerscough for committing Medicaid fraud in estimation of $ 4.7 million for non-emergency medical transportion. He has been convicted on all accounts, and his sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 14.
You can read the full story here: https://www.sj-r.com/news/20160727/chicago-area-man-convicted-of-bilking-medicaid-for-millions
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LOUISVILLE, KY – MD2U Holding Company, including its related companies and individually named owners (“Defendants”), have agreed to pay millions to resolve a government lawsuit alleging that they violated the federal False Claims Act by knowingly submitting false medical claims to Medicare and other government health care programs, altering records to support false claims, and providing services that were medically unnecessary U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. today announced….
MD2U also utilized an electronic medical records (EMR) system that permitted the NPPs to easily electronically cut, copy and paste medical notes from prior visits. The ability to migrate notes from visits that occurred weeks, months, or even years prior to the current patient encounter created the illusion that MD2U’s NPPs were performing a significant amount of work during their patient encounters when, in fact, they were not. If the documentation was deficient to bill the highest level code, MD2U would direct NPPs to go back and change the medical record – after the encounter had occurred – to falsely show that more work was performed during the visit in order to support the highest level billing.
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Gregory D. Toran, 67, of Hazel Crest in the Chicago area has been convicted by U.S. District Judge Sue Myerscough for committing Medicaid fraud in estimation of $ 4.7 million for non-emergency medical transportion. He has been convicted on all accounts, and his sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 14.
You can read the full story here: http://www.sj-r.com/news/20160727/chicago-area-man-convicted-of-bilking-medicaid-for-millions
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Gregory D. Toran, 67, of Hazel Crest in the Chicago area has been convicted by U.S. District Judge Sue Myerscough for committing Medicaid fraud in estimation of $ 4.7 million for non-emergency medical transportion. He has been convicted on all accounts, and his sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 14.
You can read the full story here: http://www.sj-r.com/news/20160727/chicago-area-man-convicted-of-bilking-medicaid-for-millions
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