Healthicity Blog

Ada recently set out to learn how to knit. Knitting is known for bringing a sense of calm joy to practitioners. It’s something to do with your hands, a way to relax, unwind, all while creating interesting gifts (some lovely, some weird) for your friends and loved ones. A table doily, some baby...

1. Three Companies and Their Executives Pay $19.5 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Pertaining to Rehabilitation Therapy and Hospice Services

1. Justice Department reaches first settlement with opioid manufacturer - “The Justice Department and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals reached a $35 million settlement Tuesday to resolve allegations that the company failed to report signs that large quantities of its highly addictive oxycodone pills...

1. Most Hated Man in Healthcare’ Trial Underway: “Martin Shkreli, the ‘most hated man in healthcare,’and former pharmaceutical executive who gained notoriety for hiking up the price of a life-saving drug, will finally go on trial Monday on charges of ripping off investors.”

1. Los Angeles Hospital Agrees to Pay $42 Million to Settle Alleged False Claims Act Violations Arising from Improper Payments to Physicians -

1. Orlando Doctor and Infusion Clinic Owner Sentenced to 64 Months and 90 Months in Prison for Role in Medicare Fraud -

1. Genesis Healthcare agrees to pay $53.6M to settle fraud allegation - “Pennsylvania-based Genesis Healthcare Inc. has agreed to pay the federal government $53.6 million to settle six False Claims Act lawsuits that accused the company of defrauding government healthcare programs.

Compliance officers don’t necessarily need to know everything about medical coding and modifiers, but at a minimum, compliance officers should know that modifiers matter.