Posts Tagged ‘Medical Billing’

New Hydrocodone Formulation Eschews Acetaminophen
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Manufacturers of the new formulation—hydrocodone bitartrate—are billing the agent as “the first single-entity hydrocodone therapy,” pending FDA approval. Early data indicate that the drug, Zohydro (Zogenix), is effective in the treatment of moderate …
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Outpatient sticker shock: 8 for a 3-minute treatment [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
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The cost for a 3-minute procedure to treat Meir's warts totaled $ 538 , which included a $ 220 bill for physician services — and a separate bill for a $ 318 hospital "facility fee." Zaromb, a periodontist who lives in University City , is now suing SSM …
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Question by ‘sup: Social Security for Autism?
My son has autism and is severely disabled. He is almost 3 years old and has the speech of a 4 to 5 month old, that is one example of many. We are working with him extremely hard with different therapies but he just isn’t improving. Once he turns 3 years old, his one on one services gets cut off and he goes through the school district and it will be in a group setting which isn’t as good and wont help him as much as the one on one, everyone admits this but says cut backs for the schools there is nothing they can do about it. So my husband and I were wondering if he would qualify for social security so we can pay for therapies for him? We also want to know if it makes it easier to qualify if we don’t take money at all but the social security administration pays the therapists directly? All of his therapies equals out to about $ 1,500 a month and we just don’t have that much laying around after bills are payed. We don’t qualify for state medical and his insurance (Kaiser) doesn’t cover my son’s therapy’s, they only have “rehabilitative services” like after a stroke. Anyone know anything about social security for children at all????
Thank you – the link you posted, well, if it is correct my son definitely qualifies. We have a ton of medical evidence supporting everything, I guess I should start gathering it all.
Oh crap, it is based off of parents income? Do you know the cap for a family of 4 in CA?
I live in California, not Texas, but thank you.

12 Are Charged in Medicare Fraud Schemes Said to Cost Million
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Ms. Poroger, a doctor of osteopathy, is accused of billing Medicare for a variety of services that were never provided, including vitamin infusion therapy, sleep studies, nerve conduction tests and medical scans, officials said. In a third case, …
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Former BigLaw IP Partner Gets 1 Year in 9K Billing Fraud re Autistic Son's …
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By Martha Neil A former life sciences practice leader at Morrison & Foerster has been sentenced to one year in a $ 389000 billing fraud concerning medical and educational expenses for his autistic son. The county jail sentence for Jonathan Dickstein, …
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Doctor Gets 70 Months for Medicaid Fraud
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Medical billing software company introduces online payment system
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By Elaine MurphyPublished: November 11, 2011 12:40 PM Kareo, an Irvine-based medical billing software firm, has enabled electronic patient statements and billing. The new online payment system benefits both patients and healthcare providers, …
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'How Do You Make Yourself Save?'
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Q: When I get a statement from any medical facility this statement has a list price and then a much lower agreed price with my insurance company. If I could not afford insurance would I be billed at the higher list price? Why are list prices so high? …
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South Mountain Community College Introduces New Medical Transcription …
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HCMC and its doctors' group to merge pending county's OK
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About 30 positions are being eliminated because of overlap in administrative positions such as billing, collections and human resources. Other than receiving a single bill, patients won't notice the change. HCMC has an annual budget of $ 600 million; …
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Medical regulator drops charges against doctor
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Ontario's medical regulator has dropped two misconduct charges against Dr. Lorne Wayne Sokol, right, who billed the province's health plan for $ 3.5-million worth of pain injections that were not compensable. Ontario's medical regulator dropped two …
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CollaborateMD's Significant Growth Leads to Office Move
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CollaborateMD, a leading provider of cloud-based practice management and medical billing software for medical practices and billing services, announced today their office move as a result of significant growth. The relocation accommodates recent …
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Medicaid billing scam nets year of prison time
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Kateen Morris, 44, was the principal and billing agent for M&M Transportations and which became KATS, LLC. The company provided transportation services, including medical transportation for Medicaid beneficiaries around Fort Wayne, according to court … Read more on Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

10 Biggest Hospital Stories of 2011
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Increased fraud prosecution. With the Obama administration's intense focus on fraud-fighting efforts, healthcare fraud prosecution has ballooned. Statistics released in August showed a 24 percent increase in fraud prosecutions in the first eight months … Read more on Becker’s Hospital Review

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