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The Obama administration is conducting targeted audits of hospitals to find possible upcoding of medical services related to use of electronic health records.
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Nearly 100 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, were charged for their roles in separate Medicare scams that collectively billed the taxpayer-funded program for roughly $223 million in bogus charges in a massive bust spanning eight cities, federal authorities said Tuesday.
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The New Jersey delegation to the American Medical Association's House of Delegates meeting next month wants the AMA to “educate” the CMS that the appropriate use of templates and cutting and pasting within an electronic health-record system is not tantamount to fraud.
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Dr. Steven Stack, American Medical Association board chairman, gave a spirited defense of physicians and a sharp, but balanced critique of electronic health-record systems at a federal “listening” session Friday on EHRs and their potential for use in billing fraud.
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The controversy over the appropriate use of health information technology systems to streamline workflow while not fraudulently increasing healthcare claims will get a public airing early next month.
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The schemes for ripping off Medicare range from audacious to shameless. Physicians and home health agencies in the Chicago area have submitted reimbursement claims for patients who were dead at the time a service was allegedly provided.
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Electronic health records have long been sold to hospitals and doctors with the promise of increased revenue, but now that more money is rolling in, the federal government is pushing back.
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Here's a conversation somebody should have had with an empty chair. Let's pretend the chair is U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
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If hospitals' bills to federal healthcare programs are increasing through the use of electronic health records, it may be because of improvements in documentation and a lack of national standards for gauging the intensity of some treatments, industry groups asserted in response to a critical letter...
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The Obama administration issued a stern letter to hospitals that warned that the government will crack down on providers that misuse electronic medical records to bill for unprovided services.
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