CJ Wolf
$8.18 Billion is a lot of money. It’s not the amount recovered by the government from healthcare fraud and abuse. It’s not the amount of money provided in charity care by hospitals.
Joan Hablutzel
An effective leader can easily make an organization. Here’s a few tips to stay ahead of the curve:
Leading a successful healthcare organization is challenging. But, there are a number of ways to stay ahead of the curve.
Step one, invest in yourself.
Healthicity
1. Orlando Doctor and Infusion Clinic Owner Sentenced to 64 Months and 90 Months in Prison for Role in Medicare Fraud -
CJ Wolf
When compliance officers hear of healthcare organization settlements associated with compliance problems, they’re typically hearing of settlements engineered by a government agency such as the U.S. Department of Justice or the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
Healthicity
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.
CJ Wolf
In this episode of Compliance Conversations, I sat down with Senior Consultant, Brenden O’Neil, who works in Intermountain’s professional coding and reimbursement department. O’Neil and I had a fascinating discussion on CPT codes and the complicated gray area of coding a laminectomy.
Healthicity
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.
Lara Smith
About five years ago I had an experience that changed my perspective and really opened my eyes to a better way to effectively share post-audit results.
Dr. Smith and I had met a number of times because we were in the same organization.
