Healthicity
1. Malware Attack Causes Breach of 134,512 Patient Records – “A malware attack on St. Peter’s Surgery and Endoscopy Center in New York potentially gave hackers access to 134,512 patient records, which makes it the second-largest breach this year.
CJ Wolf
The OIG has added seven new items to their work plan in March 2018. Let’s look at a few of them a little more closely.
Healthicity
1. Doctor Sentenced for Healthcare Fraud, Accepting Kickbacks to Prescribe Highly Addictive Version of Fentanyl –
CJ Wolf
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?
Marcie Swenson
It’s been almost a year and many compliance officers are still trying to figure out how to make use of the OIG Resource Guide.
Stephani Scott
EXAMPLES OF MODIFIER 59 ERRORS
Your organization is losing money. The OIG HHS reported that nearly 42% of Medicare claims for E/M services are incorrectly coded resulting in $6.7 billion in overpayments.
CJ Wolf
According to a recent post on Justice.gov, “A Detroit, Michigan-area doctor was sentenced to 72 months in prison today for his role in a $10.4 million conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program.”
Healthicity
1. Mental Health Center to Pay $4 Million under AG Settlement for Illegally Billing MassHealth for Unlicensed Patient Care –
