Coding Compliance Risk

Feds to sue Senator Steve Dickerson and other Pain Clinic proprietors over Forgery and Fraud Allegations

By |2020-04-13T18:28:28+00:00May 2nd, 2019|

Federal and State Prosecutors are moving to file lawsuits charging Tennessee Senator Steve Dickerson and different proprietors of an immense Pain Management corporation of cheating the US Government with long [...]

Florida Physician reports a HIPAA Breach that could affect over 60K patients

By |2020-04-13T18:28:47+00:00May 1st, 2019|

Authorities at doctor administrations merchant EmCare in Florida have advised 60,000 patients, representatives and contractual workers about a cybersecurity occurrence that may have uncovered their own data. An unapproved individual [...]

GAO Scrutinizes Insufficient Documentation as Cause for Improper Medicare and Medicaid Payments

By |2020-04-13T18:29:18+00:00April 25th, 2019|

For quite a long time, Medicare and Medicaid have been included on a Government Accountability Office (GAO) rundown of government programs that are at an expanded danger of misrepresentation, waste, [...]

Sutter Health settles Medicare Advantage upcoding case for $30 million

By |2020-04-13T18:29:42+00:00April 22nd, 2019|

Sutter Health was supposedly associated with a training called upcoding, which alludes to the accommodation of mistaken or overstated data about the wellbeing status of a recipient so as to [...]

Cardiovascular Associates, P.C. Consents to Pay the United States Over $399,000 to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Improper Billing Practices

By |2020-04-13T18:29:59+00:00April 16th, 2019|

Cardiovascular Associates, P.C. has consented to pay $399,230.35 to settle asserts that they submitted false cases to the United States for administrations not rendered. Cardiovascular Associates P.C. is a therapeutic [...]