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Deeper Than the Headlines: Blood Draws and Travel Allowance
Does your organization perform blood draws for laboratory tests? Do your lab technicians who draw blood ever need to travel to obtain the specimen from the patient?
Deeper Than the Headlines: Healthcare Equipment and Supplies
If you are a provider of equipment or supplies to your patients, the latest OIG audit report will be of interest to you.
Compliance News Roundup: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
1. United States Joins False Claims Act Lawsuit Against Wheeling Hospital, R & V Associates, and Ronald Violi Based on Improper Payments and Kickbacks to Physicians –
An Auditor’s Simple Guide to Infusion Services
An infusion service is defined as the “administration of intravenous fluids and/or drugs over a period of time for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.”
Deeper Than the Headlines: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
The OIG’s most recently published report reveals its findings of overpayments associated with HBO (and they’re not talking about the cable channel).
Answers to All of Your E/M Service Critical Care Questions
Q1: Can a physician and an NPP of the same specialty and the same group are both bill critical care code 99291 if documenting the critical time for the patient?
Compliance News Roundup: OIG Work Plan Items for Jan 2018, Explained
1. Scripps Health to Pay $1.5 Million to Settle Claims for Services Rendered by Unauthorized Physical Therapists –
Deeper Than the Headlines: OIG Work Plan Items for Jan 2018, Explained
The OIG has updated their work plan with its January 2018 additions. Let’s take a deep dive into the updates and what they mean for you as a compliance professional.