https://www.justice.gov/usao-edky/pr/lexington-foot-and-ankle-center-agrees-pay-750000-resolve-allegations-violations-false Lexington-based podiatry practice Lexington Foot and Ankle Center, PSC (“Lexington Foot & Ankle”) and Dr. Michael Allen have agreed to resolve civil allegations that they violated the False Claims [...]
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/premier-medical-associates-agree-pay-750000-resolve-claims-false-billing Premier Medical Associates Agree To Pay $750,000 To Resolve Claims Of False Billing Tampa, FL – United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces today that Premier Medical Associates (PMA), [...]
Under normal circumstances, the biggest difficulty practices encounter when trying to engage in physician education is timing. Coordinating everyone’s schedules, pulling providers out of the operative and visiting rooms, and [...]
Picking the right coding vendor can be challenging. There so many options and they all tell you they offer accurate coding to ensure revenue optimization and compliance risk minimization. To [...]
From a compliance exposure perspective, we believe that the HIPAA risk associated with sending PHI abroad is simply untenable. HIPAA is an American law that does not extend beyond our [...]
There is no such thing as a coder who knows it all. If your coder claims to be able to code every specialty, and you let them, you might want [...]
A troubling trend in the medical coding industry is a misleading split model where companies will have resources both onshore and abroad but not disclose which personnel are performing the [...]
The coding industry is chock full of companies offering a bevy of services, one of them being coding.During our twenty five years in business, we have seen countless vendors in [...]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CMS has announced relief measures for providers who are bound to participate in its quality reporting programs, including the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). First, [...]
As many healthcare organizations seek to have their billing and coding staffs work remotely, active attempts to compromise their organization's data, via phishing and malware, are being perpetrated by foreign [...]
