Healthicity Blog

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...

On July 13, 2017, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the largest healthcare fraud takedown in history.

Recently, I talked with Christopher Chandler, a senior consultant at a large medical group in the professional coding and reimbursements department. Christopher explained a whole slew of surgical coding misunderstandings like confusion about how ICD coding works with CPT coding and what to do with...

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. 3 Ways To Measure The Effectiveness Of Your Compliance Program: It’s important to have an effective compliance program but sometimes it can be pretty difficult to measure the success.

Gone are the days when compliance was viewed as less important than other departments in healthcare. Compliance is vital and with its importance comes great responsibility.

Compliance officers must adapt to the ever-changing rules and regulations.

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

$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.