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Advanced Data Processing Inc. says info in data breach disclosed to theft ring
By Joseph Conn | November 30, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Advanced Data Processing Inc., a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company that provides medical billing and coding services to emergency medical services providers, announced it experienced a data breach involving an employee who illegally accessed individual account information, "some of which was...
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HMA execs defend ER admissions rates
By Melanie Evans and Joe Carlson | November 30, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Health Management Associates executives defended admissions from the company's emergency rooms as comparable with national averages and local competitors ahead of an expected “60 Minutes” story.
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Baylor agrees to settle whistle-blower case
By Joe Carlson | November 27, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The 928-bed Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas and its affiliated HealthTexas Provider Network have agreed to pay $907,000 to settle whistle-blower allegations that the hospital and physicians fraudulently billed Medicare and Tricare for radiation oncology services between 2006 and 2010.
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Morton Plant Mease to pay $10.1 million settlement in whistle-blower case
By Beth Kutscher | November 20, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Morton Plant Mease, Clearwater, Fla., has entered into a $10.1 million settlement with the Justice Department to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act.
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AHA to HHS: Let's work on EHR compliance
By Joe Carlson | November 14, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The American Hospital Association wants to work with the government to ensure that the sellers of electronic health-record systems are producing systems that comply with federal law and don't lead healthcare providers to submit bills that later get them in trouble.
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Conifer Health buys Dell's billing business
By Melanie Evans | November 05, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Conifer Health Solutions, the billing and collections subsidiary of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp., has acquired Dell's healthcare billing and collections business line.
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MedSolutions names Cheek exec VP
By Paul Barr | November 02, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
MedSolutions, Franklin, Tenn., a medical cost management services company, named Roger Cheek executive VP of operations.
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Information
Northwestern sued for allegedly double-billing feds for patient care
By Andrew L. Wang, Crain's Chicago Business | November 01, 2012
A former employee of Northwestern University has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the university and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, alleging that the hospital improperly double-billed the federal government for patient care.
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Try diversity in medical homes, and other letters
By Modern Healthcare | October 27, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
I can't believe that the American Academy of Family Physicians in the 21st century would fail to represent the diversity of leadership required to address the broad-ranging restructuring of primary healthcare services (“
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Healthcare billing services company AdvantEdge buys Medrium
By Melanie Evans | October 24, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions has acquired Medrium, an emergency-medical and ambulance-service billing and practice-management company.
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