Healthcare Compliance News
By NIH News Feed on Monday, November 28, 2022.
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By United States Department of Justice on Wednesday, November 23, 2022.
HealthOne Critical Care Transport Service, Inc. d/b/a MedicOne Medical Response ("MedicOne") of Marion, Illinois, has agreed to pay $302,124.37 in a civil settlement agreement resolving allegations the company improperly billed Medicare for scheduled, non-emergency ambulance transportation.
By U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday, November 22, 2022.
Under the Medicare Part B program, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) makes a reduced payment to physicians who work together as co-surgeons to perform a surgical procedure on the same patient during the same operative session. We conducted this audit because of the potential risk that Medicare was overpaying physicians for co-surgery procedures billed without the appropriate modifier.
By U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday, November 22, 2022.
Payments for ACP provided from 2016 through 2019 totaled more than $340 million. Payments for services provided in an office setting represented 61 percent of all payments.
By National Institutes of Health on Tuesday, November 22, 2022.
Reporting a positive or negative test result just became easier through a new website from the National Institutes of Health. MakeMyTestCount.org, developed through NIH's Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx®) Tech program, allows users to anonymously report the results of any brand of at-home COVID-19 test.