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Ineligible Medicaid Provider Arrested for Defrauding Medicaid of More Than $68K

Healthcare Compliance Blog

An ineligible Medicaid provider was arrested in Florida for defrauding Medicaid of more than $68,000. According to a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit investigation, the provider had failed to disclose his former felony convictions that precluded Medicaid from accepting the application. List of Excluded Individuals/Entities ?

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Pennsylvania Man Excluded from All Federal Healthcare Programs for 22 Years 

Healthcare Compliance Blog

His exclusion means that no federal healthcare program payment may be made, either directly or indirectly, for any items or services furnished by him or at his direction or prescription. Between 2017 and 2019, the man, through a group of pain clinics he controlled, caused the submission of false claims for payment to Medicare.

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Corporate Compliance Training Software Is a Necessity

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Corporate compliance training software is vital to tailoring programs to staff, departments, and locations. Corporate compliance training software is vital to tailoring programs to staff, departments, and locations. Department of Health & Human Services ( HHS ). monitorship or reporting obligations).”

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Florida Home Health Company Pays $2.1M to Resolve False Claims Allegations

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A home health services company headquartered in Kentucky, and its related entities, paid $2.1 million to the United States government to settle claims of improperly billing the Medicare Program for home health services provided to beneficiaries living in Florida.

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CMS’s Administrative Simplification Rule Aims to Increase Efficiency and Standardization for Health Care Attachments

Healthcare Law Blog

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), recently issued a proposed rule to adopt standards under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) for “health care attachment” transactions (the “Proposed Rule”).

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Fifth Circuit Upholds ACA Risk Adjustment Program

Healthcare Law Blog

Various smaller health insurance issuers have challenged the risk-adjustment program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), alleging, among other things, that its underlying methodology favors larger insurers. See Vista Health Plan, Inc. United States Dep’t of Health & Hum. The Risk-Adjustment Program.

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Nursing Home Provider to Pay over $5.5M in Civil False Claims Settlement

Med-Net Compliance

An Indiana provider of skilled nursing and long-term care services has agreed to pay $5,591,044.66 It is illegal to submit claims for payment to Medicare or Medicaid that you know or should know are false or fraudulent.? to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to the Medicare program.