... Care Act has created 111.4 million hours of paperwork. The AAF estimated that it would take 55,742 employees working 2,000 hours per year to complete the paperwork. OIG issues fraud alert on physician-owned ...28 March 2013

The HHS Office of Inspector General has issued a special fraud alert focused on specific attributes of physician-owned distributorships the agency believes "produce substantial fraud and abuse risk and ...26 March 2013

... DRGs, is another payment reform that has made its way to the forefront of the business office. BPCI is based on the idea that hospitals, physicians and other parties will collaborate to better coordinate ...25 March 2013

Medicare officials are calling on physicians to be more aware of the billing and coding inefficiencies that cost the healthcare industry billions annually, according to a viewpoint in the Journal of the ...20 March 2013

... relationships between physicians and health systems. Mr. Becker said some of the most fascinating cases recently involved health systems exerting caution by seeking and receiving multiple valuations and ...08 March 2013

... Sawyer, as well as 52 Physician Leaders and 25 CEOs. David J. Abraham, MD, board-certified in orthopedic surgery, is a physician at the Reading Neck and Spine Center in Wyomissing, Pa. Dr. Abraham ...28 February 2013

... course of action. Wayne J. Miller, Esq., is a healthcare transaction and regulatory attorney and founding partner of the Los Angeles-based Compliance Law Group. He has extensive experience in hospital-physician ...22 February 2013

... opinion concerning a radiology group that proposed to offer free pre-authorization services to physicians and patients which has potential application to hospital-based specialists and to independent practitioners. ...19 February 2013

... say Dr. Melgen prescribed and performed more of these procedures than any other physician in Florida and perhaps the country, according to the report. That, along with high patient volumes and other claims, ...08 February 2013

... presented the OIG with two scenarios. The first was a simple and direct proposed payment from the group to the physician-owned ASC: a per-patient "Management Services" fee covering preoperative nursing ...05 February 2013

... from their employer were permitted to stay on their parent's plan.  Anticipating the boost in demand, education assistance was established to attract more primary care nurses and physicians into underserved ...05 February 2013

... accounting for over 17 percent of our GDP, physicians have to find a way to correct inefficiencies within the system." Over the next several weeks, Congress will continue to discuss healthcare spending ...29 January 2013

... risk for a large percent of the payor dollar (very large physician groups can also accomplish this). Between 2009 and 2010, Medicare spent roughly $153 billion on roughly 10 million inpatient admissions ...23 January 2013

... BASM co-founders as defendants. The complaint alleged that the defendants, who are not in-network with Cigna, recruit physicians to invest in their ASCs and require the physicians to refer a stream of ...15 January 2013

Paul Madison, MD, a physician with offices in Michigan City and the Watertower SurgiCenter in Chicago, has been indicted on federal fraud charges, according to a Chicago Tribune report. Federal prosecutors ...08 January 2013

... are Mr. Ebel's six points on both avoiding and properly handling RACs. 1. Work toward complete documentation. The best line of defense is to get it right the first time, so physicians and coders should ...04 January 2013

... two physicians who were billed for surgeries at which they were not present, according to the report. A review committee recommended that money be refunded for the case in which the billing physician was ...26 December 2012

...  2. Improve physician documentation. Physicians will need to improve clinical documentation on the front end. It will be a much more onerous task for coders to go back and retrieve information they were ...26 December 2012

... practicing emergency room physician. During his tenure in the Oregon State Senate, to which he was elected in 1980, Dr. Kitzhaber was the chief author of the state's government-funded healthcare plan, the ...19 November 2012

Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, is the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and Society of Interventional Pain Management Surgery Centers. ...12 November 2012