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Medicare: What’s Covered and What’s Not Google

Medicare – What’s Covered and What’s Not
Medicare can be confusing. There are a number of pieces to the Medicare puzzle, and understanding how they fit together and where the gaps are is important to knowing where Medicare coverage begins and ends. For the official U.S. Government perspective on Medicare, visit the Medicare Options Compare website. [...]

Private Medical Insurance – An Independent Guide To Buying Private Health Cover Google

The Association of British Insurers, the acknowledged trade institution for UK insurance companies, designed an independent guide to buying private medical insurance To understand more about how private medical insurance works,. Added in this guide is the summary of the products offered by the companies which you consider for buying, which is sent through the [...]

OIG Cracks Down First Months of 2010 Google

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has continued to indict, prosecute, and convict members of the healthcare community for allegedly violating the Civil Monetary Penalty (CMP) statue and the False Claims statute. Some notable prosecutions are below:

President Obama to Expand RAC program Google

Providers beware: On March 9, 2010, President Obama re-emphasized his support of, and intention to, expand the RAC program.
As part of President Obama’s drive to pass the comprehensive changes to the nation’s healthcare system, the President plans to bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out healthcare fraud in the government-run [...]

HLP Attorney Dresevic Published on Stark and AKS in RBMA Bulletin Google

One of HLP’s founding partners, Adrienne Dresevic, Esq., who specializes in Stark and fraud & abuse analysis, published a new article in the latest issue of the RBMA Bulletin, a publication of the Radiology Business Management Association. Adrienne’s article, entitled “Key Regulations Impacting Marketing: Entertainment and Gifts,” explains the regulatory limitations placed on health [...]

HITECH "Business Associate" Provisions Enforcement Delayed Google

Unverified accounts have it that enforcement of the “business associate” provisions of the HITECH Act, which was set to commence on February 17, 2010, is being delayed. The business associate provisions require business associates of covered entities to also implement the HIPAA Security Rule, and portions of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, and also requires [...]

Sometimes Being The Low Man On The Totem Pole Doesn’t Help Much At Sentencing Google

Alex Carrazana was a Medical Assistant. He is currently serving 72 months in prison for Medicare Fraud. He was for a time employed by a clinic called Midway Medical. At that clinic his job was to help with the infusion of drugs to HIV patients for therapy for a condition called thrombocytopenia, [...]

The War On Pain, Law Enforcement versus Medicine? Google

When it comes to chronic pain, the current DEA war on pain management leads to a question: How much authority should the DEA have over the treatment of patients? According to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, “If you’re thinking about getting into pain management using opioids as appropriate: DON’T. Forget what you [...]

The Value of Patient Information Google

Florida and a number of states attempting to outlaw so called ambulance chasing in personal injury cases have employed several methods to limit access to records of patients. First, statutes prohibit access to police accident reports for 60-days. Second, statutes as well as professional rules regulating the professional conduct of lawyers and health [...]

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