The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently provided health care governing boards with some new points of guidance on how to achieve ...
The United States District for the District of New Jersey has certified as a class action a lawsuit brought on behalf of thousands of chiropractic physicians who were denied reimbursement ...
An upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision could have a major impact on the health care industry. In King v. Burwell, the plaintiffs believe the text of the Affordable Care Act ...
The next round of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance audits is still on hold after a three-year delay, and federal regulators are declining to give any ...
According to a recent report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, more doctors are taking part in a reporting system geared toward prioritizing the quality of patient care ...
According to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice, Citizens Medical Center in Texas will pay $21.8 million to the federal government to settle allegations of illegal payments to ...
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, a doctor from Irving, Texas was arrested May 8 under suspicion of running a $5.2 million health care fraud scheme with his Dallas house-call ...
Dr. Devon Golding of St. Louis was convicted on multiple charges related to health care fraud, including false statements on a health care benefit plan and billing for services not ...
Three months ago, the United States Department of Justice announced that it had a record year for money made through recoveries under the False Claims Act. Recoveries in 2014 reached ...
Phase II HIPAA audits are coming soon, and while each individual hospital has a very small chance of actually being the subject of an audit, it is still important to ...
