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.
Category: Fraud
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.
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.
In my experience, most kickback schemes are not as brazen as this. They involve fewer numbers of people and, sometimes, behavior that is more easily rationalized by the participants as “sort of legal”.
Ride along with Mark as he discusses the danger of identity fraud on physicians.
