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Physician venture investor talks telehealth, digital therapeutics, Medicaid tech

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Norden is particularly passionate about funding companies focused on the Medicaid population – a traditionally tricky and often ignored area. Virtual visits were selected five times more often for anxiety and depression complaints than in-person – and this was for pre-pandemic encounters between 2015 and 2017.

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Georgia Rehabilitation Center Submitted 808 False Claims to Medicaid/Tricare

Healthcare Compliance Blog

A Georgia district court has issued a summary judgment against a state rehabilitation center for 808 false claims billed to Medicaid and Tricare between November 2015 and June 2020. 2, 2015–July 31, 2016, and a range of $11,181–$22,363 for violations committed after Jan. Issue: All submitted claims must be accurate and truthful.

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Not-So-Charitable Donations: DOJ Achieves a $20 Million Settlement for a Backdoor Donation Scheme for Increased Medicaid Contributions

C&M Health Law

Department of Justice (DOJ) to resolve allegations that it had made donations in order to improperly inflate the funding four of its hospitals received from the federal Medicaid program. Florida Medicaid is administered by the state but jointly funded by both the state and federal governments.

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CMS Begins Option to Extend Medicaid Postpartum Coverage

Healthcare Law Blog

On April 1, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced states may seek to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from 60 days to one year through a new state plan option offered by the American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”). In states that have not expanded Medicaid, however, many postpartum women lose coverage.

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Safeguarding Against Medical Identity Theft Training

American Medical Compliance

Through Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, the federal government and state governments offer health care coverage to nearly 100 million individuals. trillion in 2015. This type of theft is just one example of healthcare fraud.

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False Information Is Material Regardless of the Validity of Underlying Eligibility Requirements

Hall Render

The Fourth Circuit recently held that providers may not defend a False Claims Act (“FCA”) lawsuit by arguing that eligibility requirements violate the Medicaid Act. the government alleged a clinical pharmacy manager for a Tennessee Walgreens falsified twelve different patients’ medical records between January 2015 and June 2016.

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Addressing the Mental Health Crisis in Kids: Collaboration and Technology Are Key

Healthcare IT Today

Beyond the fact that DotCom Therapy has been successfully delivering services since 2015, a review of two dozen studies in 2019 found that phone and video therapies were equally effective at treating conditions like anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder as in-person therapy.

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