Posts Tagged ‘Hospitals’

Billing Practices Questioned at Local Hospitals
Filed under: patient billing

From 2008 to 2010, they found Prime billed Medicare for 1030 cases of kwashiorkor. Prime's spokesperson denied accusations that the company's doctor's misdiagnosed Medicare patients. The spokesperson insisted that billing practices were accurate and in …
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Shift your focus: the new generation of dental billing
Filed under: patient billing

And by the way, you can now start billing some routine and special dental services to your patient's medical insurance. Hold on there, you say. How do I do that? The springboard to accomplish is there in front of you. This change in billing procedures …
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Special Report: Phantom firms bleed millions from Medicare
Filed under: patient billing

Using stolen patient information, they called WellPoint's customer service line. They pretended to be the patients, Lavelle says, and asked to change the patients' billing addresses to post office boxes. That way, the patients themselves wouldn't …
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Doctors bill hospitals for work they haven't done
Filed under: medical claims

Some hospitals, which checked claims from visiting medical officers thoroughly, found errors in between 10 and 18 per cent of claims. The Audit Office of NSW estimates this rate is replicated across all public hospitals, many of which use ''minimal …
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Secrecy protects doctors with long histories of problems
Filed under: medical claims

222117's medical licenses. Two professional societies took away the doctor's memberships. The Department of Health and Human Services banned the doctor from billing Medicare and Medicaid. And the Drug Enforcement Administration revoked the doctor's …
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Drawing the Line Between Fraud and Abuse in PIP Claims
Filed under: medical claims

By James Ruototo, SAS The Insurance Research Council (IRC) estimates that about one-third of paid auto injury claims in Florida contain some form of fraud or abuse. But where is the line between hard fraud and abusive medical billing? …
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Subsidy for private treatment in public hospitals to be abolished
Filed under: medical private

THE GOVERNMENT is to eliminate the subsidy provided for private medical treatment carried out in public hospitals. The move, which involves further increasing the cost of private beds in public hospitals, will generate about €18 million in additional …
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Doctors, hospitals go into business as equals
Filed under: medical private

The Warren-based health system has set up three companies with physicians to help health system leaders manage cardiovascular services at its east side hospitals, surgery services at its west hospitals and medical neurology across its five-hospital …
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The medical war on Israel
Filed under: medical private

Through the private program “Save the heart of a child,” the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon cures congenital cardiologic defects in Arab children from all over the world. About half the children it treats are from the nearby Palestinian areas and …
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Area hospitals to pursue grants to ready for reform
Filed under: texas children’s health insurance

By JEANNIE KEVER, HOUSTON CHRONICLE A $ 1 billion program announced Monday by the Obama administration could help institutions in the Texas Medical Center prepare for the tens of thousands of new patients expected to gain health insurance under health …
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Low-income state workers begin to gain access to Children's Health Insurance …
Filed under: texas children’s health insurance

At least six states have opened their Children's Health Insurance Program to the kids of low-income state employees, an option that was prohibited until the passage of the 2010 health-care law. This relatively small step has as its backdrop years of …
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Dallas Children's Health Report: Child Abuse Prominent
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Hospitals target high-risk patients by predicting readmissions
Filed under: healthcare reimbursement
FierceHealthcare is the leading source of healthcare management news for healthcare industry executives. Join 50000+ healthcare industry insiders who get FierceHealthcare via daily email. Sign up today! Under reimbursement pressures, hospitals are … Read more on FierceHealthcare

Kindred reports third-quarter earnings slide
Filed under: healthcare reimbursement
“In light of continued reimbursement pressures, we are focused on the realization of cost synergies across the organization,” Diaz said in the release. “The investments we have made in people and infrastructure in connection with the RehabCare … Read more on Bizjournals.com

OSF pursues a change in status
Filed under: healthcare reimbursement
Jennings noted reimbursements are expected to decline further under healthcare reform. "The future under health care reform is uncertain, but one thing we know is there will be less reimbursement than what we are currently experiencing," said Jennings. … Read more on Escanaba Daily Press

Medicare Urology Fraud At Columbia and New York Presbyterian Hospitals Yields …
Filed under: hospital medicare fraud
Consequently, it is alleged that Columbia and Presbyterian Hospital benefitted financially from the fraud. The settlement, approved by the federal court on October 4 th , required Columbia to pay $ 995000 in civil damages under the False Claims Act. In … Read more on Forbes

Gov. Rick Scott is all about transparency — now
Filed under: hospital medicare fraud
I'm still waiting for a category explaining why his former hospital company had to pay a record $ 1.7 billion in fines for Medicare fraud. It likely will be a long wait. Scott's latest target: state university professors. Scott recently posted all of … Read more on Florida Times-Union (blog)