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Coming Soon to a Covered Entity Near You … HIPAA Audits
In 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was approved by Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton...
CINDY SANDERS Published on: Thu, 05/17/2012 - 16:19
Fraudulent Billing Practices
Fraudulent Billing Practices Triangle area is hotbed for bogus activities Providers looking to defraud Medicare and Medicaid are getting very clever. Charging for toenail debridement for 70 or 80 non-diabetic nursing home residents in a day, homemaker chore services that were never performed, dispatching nurses for unnecessary home health services, drug diversion, and chiropractors billing for adjustments “performed” on young children and hospice care patients are a few of the innovative fraud conspiracies that have been identified by Medicare and Medicaid fraud specialists over the last year...
LYNNE JETER Published on: Tue, 11/22/2011 - 15:37