Sunday, September 1, 2013

Former Office Manager for Health Care Solutions Network Sentenced in $63 Million Medicare Fraud

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U.S. Department of Justice August 30, 2013 Office of Public Affairs (202) 514-2007/TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON—A form...
Friday, August 30, 2013

CMS finalizes FY 2014 Medicare IPPS, LTCH rates

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On August 19, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule updating  FY 2014 Medicare payment poli...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Due Diligence: Your Greatest Ally in Healthcare Fraud Prevention

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 Kameron Gifford, CPC If you are practicing medicine today, you are at risk for allegations of fraud. What steps have you taken to mi...

Mobile Doctors’ Chicago CEO and Doctor Arrested on Federal Health Care Fraud Charges

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Offices Searched in Three Cities U.S. Attorney’s Office August 27, 2013 Northern District of Illinois (312) 353-5300 CH...

Florida leads nation in another type of inappropriate Medicare billing

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Florida health care firms have added a new category of inappropriate Medicare billing to lead the nation in: diabetes test strips. South...

Aetna pulls out of New York health insurance exchange

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(Reuters) - Aetna Inc, the No. 3 U.S. health insurer, said on Thursday it has decided not to sell insurance on New York's individual h...

HIPAA Can Be The Biggest Hurdle In Healthcare M&A

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Tony Kong and Matt Sondag, September 2013 The importance of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) i...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

High-tech monitors will help patients and their caregivers

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TVs in your hospital room are so yesterday. In the near future, flat-screen terminals mounted on the wall or near your bedside might off...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released a fact sheet on participating in the 2013 Physician Quality Reporting System/Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Pilot Program.

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Under the program, eligible professionals can meet Stage 1 meaningful use clinical quality measure reporting requirements while also rep...

7 Accountable care groups serving Medicare patients in Illinois

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CHICAGO (AP) — More than 200,000 Illinois Medicare patients will have their health care needs coordinated by federally designated accounta...

Telemedicine conference speakers say technology to connect patients, doctors is "effective and efficient" | jacksonville.com

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By  Charlie Patton Telemedicine, the delivery of health care services using technology such as video conferencing, is “a cost-effec...

Yakima Doctor convicted of Medicare fraud to forfeit $129K

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YAKIMA, Wash. — A sentencing hearing has again been postponed in the case of Dr. Curtis Holden, who late last year was convicted of Medica...

Mobile Doctors CEO, physician charged with Medicare fraud

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The head of a Chicago-based company that manages physicians who make house calls and one of its most prolific doctors were arrested Tuesda...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Researchers Create New 'Education-Centered Medical Home' Teaching Model

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August 26, 2013 02:46 pm  Sheri Porter  – Researchers at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago confronted tw...