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Legitimize your worth to employers and enter to win a prize. AAPC’s Medical Coding and Billing Salary Report has become the go-to resource to learn about compensation and salary trends in the healthcare business industry. Since the late 1990s, we have been gathering salary information from members and compiling comprehensive reports. Over the years, our […]
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Legitimize your worth to employers and enter to win a prize. It’s that time of year when AAPC surveys its membership of more than 200,000 healthcare business professionals for the purpose of compiling an annual salary report. Are you ready to help medical coders and others who work in the business of healthcare nationwide earn […]
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A 52-year-old pain management physician from Houston has paid $ 530,000 to resolve allegations he falsely billed Medicare for the use of electro-acupuncture devices, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
From March 1, 2019, to Oct. 31, 2019, Dr. Syed Nasir billed Medicare for the implantation of neurostimulator electrodes–a surgical procedure that usually requires use of an operating room.
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The US Attorney for Manhattan, New York, and a Special Agent for the OIG’s New York Regional Office, announced today that the US Federal Government has settled a civil fraud suit against Lenox Hill (a Manhattan Hospital) and its corporate parent Northwell. The Government’s complaint alleges that the two Defendants violated the False Claims Act by knowingly and fraudulently billing Medicare for healthcare services that didn’t comply with Medicare law.
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Anthem paid a $ 16 million settlement resulting from a series of attacks in both 2014 and 2015 that had the potential to expose personal health information (PHI) of 79 million people. Although they paid the $ 16 million settlement, Anthem does not admit to any wrong doing. This represented the largest PHI breach in US history […]
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Health Management Associates, LLC (HMA), a hospital chain that has its headquarters in Naples, Florida will be paying over $ 260 million to avoid criminal and civil claims associated with a scheme to defraud the government of the United States. In this case, the government alleged that HMA was billing inpatient services when they should have […]
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In a time when many scoff at the potential of being levied steep penalties for violation of HIPAA rules, a judge just upheld a fine that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued in 2017 for Texas-based MD Anderson’s use of unencrypted devices. This penalty is stiff and says that you cannot just […]
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Besides taking a machete to E/M reimbursement and the way Medicare looks at E/M services, the current administration has proposed some large changes in the way Medicare pays doctors. They have also proposed ways that hospital facilities disclose prices to patients, providing more transparency. Changing Payment The pipeline for immediate changes includes the government paying more […]
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Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center-Norman (collectively “OSC”) have paid $ 1,537,796 to settle civil claims stemming from allegations that they submitted false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and TRICARE. In reaching this settlement, OSC did not admit liability, and the government did not make any concessions regarding the legitimacy of the claims. The agreement allows the parties to avoid the delay, expense, inconvenience, and uncertainty involved in litigating the case.
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