Audits: Extrapolation as Valid Methodology

Another Reason You Need A Contract

Asset Protection Tip: The More Control, The Less Protected

Asset Protection Tip: May I Charge Patients an Administrative Fee if They Fail to Pay Copays at Time of Visit?

Balance Billing: Investigations are up, Do you have a policy in place?
 
Balance Billing, Take 2: Non-Participating Providers MUST Balance Bill

Balance Billing, Take 3, Charging Different Rates for Different Patients

Balance Billing Take 4, Who's Monitoring Balance Billing?

Balance Billing Take 5, Horizon Blue Cross NJ Suing Non-Pars for Failure to Balance Bill

Billing Facility Fees - DOH Says Has To Be Through Professional Entity That Bills for Professional
Component As Well

Billing for Consults? Medicare Prepayment Reviews after 99245s!

Billing for Nurse Practitioner services in a Medical Office

Billing Medicare for Consultations Codes?

Billing Surgery that has Medically Necessary and Cosmetic Component

Charging No Show Hearing Impaired Patients for Interpreter Costs is a NO NO

CMS SCAM ALERT - For those not on CMS or Society List Serves

Commentary - Hospital Relations

Comments On - How many physician assistants may a doctor supervise at one time?

Corporate Structure: Options and Considerations

Correction: Medicare Cut Temporarily Averte, Hope For Permanent Fix?

Does Multiple Surgery Rule (same patient, different procedures, same operation) Apply to Non-Pars?

Do I need a contract to rent space to a tenant in my office?

Do I really have to collect co-pays?

DOJ and HHS Join Forces for to form HEAT - New Joint Agency to Fight Fraud

Emailing With Patients? Make Sure You Have a Security Policy in Place

Employees v. Independent Contractors: Question of Fact, Which Do You Qualify As?

Employment Contracting: Equity Potential?

FAIR Health, Inc.: Tabulating Out-of-Network Usual & Customary Rates

False Claims Act: Enticing Whistleblowers to Report on Practice Improprieties

Feisty Employee Ignoring Office Policy?

Friendly Reminder That You May Need to Get Accredited for OBS SOON

Group Practices

Helping Strangers In Emergency Situations: Am I Protected From Liability?

HIPAA - Disclosing to the family member of a deceased patient

HHS Report: Insurance Companies Prosper, Families Suffer

HMO? Balance Billing a No-No

Installing Monitoring in Office Setting

Introducing EMR Roundtable

IRS Scheduled to Audit: Checking Employment Tax Compliance

Is your practice HIPAA compliant in light of the new HITECH Act changes?

Just When You Thought You Were Compliant - Red Flag Rules

Liability Everywhere!

May a Physician-Owner Not Performing Clinical Services Receive Profit-Share?

May a practitioner appeal a hospital's decision to deny his/her privileges?

May I Fire a Patient?

May I Install Cameras and Audio Recording Devices in my Practice?

May Par Doc “Supervise” For Out-of-Network Rates?

Medicaid Taking Small Step to Improve Quality and Efficiency

Medicare Audit Process

Medicare's Hired Guns: Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractors Coming to Provider Offices Near You in
October 2008, Part I
 
More Audits

Must you disclose protected health information to the parent of a patient who is a minor?

New Years Resolutions for 2010

New York Accounts for almost 50% of Nationwide Fraud Recovery

NY's Good Samaritan Law in Action

NYs Response to Stem Cell Initiatives

Office-Based Surgery Credentialing Requirement

OIG Self-Disclosure Protocol: Colorable Anti-Kickback Violations Only

OMIG Goals and Initiatives and its Self-Disclosure Program

OPMC newsletter, February 2009

OPMC update: D'Angelo v. State Board for Professional Medical Conduct

Opting Out of Medicare: 2-Year Opt-Out Period of NO MEDICARE PAYMENTS

Out of Network Co-Pays, Deductibles

Participate with Empire? Empire's New Out-of Network Referral Policy - Fining Doctors who Fail to
Obtain Patient Waiver

FOLLOW UP: Participate with Empire? Empire's New Out-of Network Referral Policy - Fining Doctors who
Fail to Obtain Patient Waiver

Perform Surgery in Your Office? Deadline Rapidly Approaching

Performing Vision Tests? Reporting Legally Blind Patient, but NOT to DMV Without Consent

Prior Insurance Approval, Subsequent Denial for Lack of Coverage

Prompt Pay Discounts - May You Accept?

Comments on Prompt Pay Discounts

Physician Office Lab Director MUST be W-2 Employee

Q.  I’m forming a separate entity for my facility; does that entity have to be a professional entity? 

Quick Q&A: Charging for Copies?

Recent OIG Opinion - Bona Fide Employee Relationship saves counselor from Anti-Kickback Statute
Violation

Red Flags Rule Policies and Procedures - Getting Ready for May 1, 2009 Effective Date

Red Flags Rule Effective Date Changed to August 1, 2009

Red Flag Rule Enforcement Delayed to June 1, 2010

Reigning in OMIG Audit Tactics

Renting More Than Space?

Seeing Outpatients at Hospital - How Do I Bill?

Telemedicine: Radiologist Indicted for Fraudulent "Ghosting" Charges

What complaints are appropriate to be made to the Department of Insurance?

What Contracts Do I Really Need?

What is CLIA and does my office have to worry about it?

Whats the State up to? -- Doctors Across New York Program - Have loans? Like nature?

Whistleblowers Beware: False Claims Act Qui Tam Provision Does not Provide Protection for All Kinds of
Complaints

Why is my practice name important?

Why You Should Board the Bus to Albany - AMA Report: Senate Fails to Stop 21% Medicare Pay Cut - For Now

Workin 9 to 5, Set Lunch Break Required?