Healthicity Blog

1. Oahu Physical Therapist Pleads Guilty To HealthCare Fraud –

Everyone has to report to someone, even the OIG, and one way the OIG reports is via testimony before Congress. The latest of such testimony was given on April 12, 2018, by Megan H. Tinker, Senior Advisor for Legal Review.

What You Need to Know About the DOJ OIG Annual Report

On April 6, 2018, the OIG and DOJ posted the annual report for fiscal year 2017 for the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program.

If you were looking for a sound financial investment, what kind of return on your money would you consider good? 8%, 10%, 20%? How about 652%!! If you could find such an ROI, wouldn’t it be amazing?

1. Healthcare News: Captured Fugitive – “On March 23, 2018, fugitive Antonio Quevedo-Ledo was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at Miami International Airport after arriving from a flight from Cuba.

If your organization provides outpatient physical therapy services, it’s probably a good idea to become familiar with the OIG’s latest work in this area.

What do you do when you’re running an exclusion check on an employee or vendor and you receive a positive match? Does a positive match automatically mean that person can’t work for you?

The Vermont hospital, Brattleboro Memorial, recently paid $1.6 million to the U.S. and State of Vermont to resolve allegations of false claims.