Telehealth can be used to vastly improve patients’ access to medical care. At the same time, it can be used to vastly improve criminals’ access to Medicare dollars. It shouldn’t be that difficult for physicians to assess the bona fides of their proposed participation in a telehealth “business model” when the ones doing the proposing are telemarketers.
Author: Mark
Hamburger or Health Care? Why You Must Understand the Dilemma. – Medical Group Minute
Many medical groups have come to expect that their businesses run like vending machines. Push the button and out comes collections.
Free isn’t Free When It Costs Close to $10 Million in AKS Settlements – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark while he discusses a recent AKS statute settlement that proves that free isn’t always free.
Supreme Court Declares Chevron Out of Gas – Better or Worse for You?
You’d think there’d be far and wide celebration over freedom from the yoke of administrative tyranny, but it turns out that more than a few don’t want to be free…
Compounding the Kickback Problem – Medical Group Minute
Compounding pharmaceuticals, specific drugs for specific patients, offers tremendous benefit. The problems arise when the benefit is for the prescribing physician.
In-Home Emergency Care Will Contribute to Putting Hospitals on Life-Support
What will be left after many more services are pulled out of the hospital?
“Loco Tenens” and Agency Pay $700K to Settle Alleged Telemedicine Kickback Scheme – Podcast
With physician shortages in many specialties opening up lucrative opportunities for locums work, temporary staffing is undergoing a boom.
Perhaps “Change Healthcare” Was Always A Cry For Help? The Two Real Lessons of the Change Healthcare Cyber Attack Debacle. – Medical Group Minute
The financial impact was immediate and momentous: Neither new nor existing claims, nor payment for them, could be processed.
Diamonds in the Rough – Doctors Vs. Substitutes – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark as he discusses why physicians have a lab-grown diamond problem.
Making the Bet Without Knowing the Odds – The Risk of “Large”
In your search to understand risk, don’t fall for the simple heuristic that bigger is better.