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Texts proved crucial in $1.75 million fraud settlement. An upscale senior living company accused of sharing its early COVID vaccinations with rich potential donors instead of its nursing home patients is expanding its hospice footprint in Florida. “After helping patients [...]

One ophthalmologist in our sampling would lose $39,000 a year under the new proposal. Although eye care practices have the option of reporting either ophthalmological services codes or E/M codes for their patient encounters, many ophthalmologists and optometrists bill the [...]

House, Senate wrestle with Medicare cuts.There's a fight brewing in Congress--and suppliers of home medical equipment will be wise not to sit on the sidelines, insiders say.Some good, old-fashioned grassroots political action is likely what it will take to save [...]

Abbreviations may shorten the lives of your patientsA desire to prevent a cut to your payments in January is "the biggest driver" behind Congress' desire to pass Medicare legislation this year, according to The Hill. The American Medical Association will [...]

Admissions on or after the effective date of a denial of payment remedy pose big problems for skilled nursing facilities if federal funds are in play. Yet uniform application of the sanction is turning out to be less than foolproof. [...]