Medicare Fraud is on the Rise
On Friday July 16, 2010, federal authorities had conducted the largest ever Medicare bust across five states. This raid resulted in 33 indictments and 36 arrests. The alleged fraud totaled $251 million.
“Today’s arrests illustrate how health care fraud schemes can replicate virally and migrate rapidly across communities,” said Daniel...
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. . . But Will They Do It? Can They Do It?
According to Bill Gilbert of AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions in their article Physician, Heal Thy Practice published in “Health Information Management,” most physician offices are still in the stone age when it comes to using health information technology to manage their office and billing...
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Medical billing software systems have grown more complex in response to increasingly complex medical billing procedures. Bill Gilbert of AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions says this has created a situation “that is ripe for misusing these tools to not only accidentally over-reimburse but to submit false claims-with the attendant risks and penalties.”
This concern is not...
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