What you know, both about the FCA and about the falsity of claims is now even more relevant.
Tag: fraud
Ride along with Mark as he discusses $580 million in Medicare overpayments that no one has been asked to pay back.
Don’t set yourself up to go to prison by thinking you are setting the government up to overpay you.
OK, it’s a softball question: When is it improper to bill for a case?
Often lost on physicians is the fact that even though they might not be the moving party involved in the scam, liability falls on both sides of a kickback scheme.
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.” – Teddy Roosevelt
Ride along with Mark as he discusses why you must take the things you hear with a grain of salt.
The layers of bureaucracy that were supposedly meant to insulate the doctors from the “hassles of running a medical practice” out hassled the actual “hassles of running a medical practice.” Go figure.
The moral of the story is to exercise tremendous diligence and implement operational checks and balances in connection with the presentation, and in some cases, payment, of invoices.
Ride along with Mark as he discusses the need to carefully vet your participation in any telemedicine or telehealth arrangement.