Retired OIG Special Agent and Advize’s Director of Litigation & FWA Support will be stepping in each week to examine current fraud trends from the lens of an investigator. Stay tuned for weekly insights, updates, and information on healthcare’s most expensive crimes. Every compliance professional hopes that their employer buys into the suggestions, recommendations and…
May 23rd is National Medical Coder Day to celebrate YOU and your unrelenting dedication to the field and endless hard work. From educating providers to helping keep protected health information safe and secure — YOU are a compliance warrior! YOU are an essential front line worker! Do you feel like you aren’t treated as such? We’re…
Retired OIG Special Agent and Advize’s Director of Litigation & FWA Support will be stepping in each week to examine current fraud trends from the lens of an investigator. Stay tuned for weekly insights, updates, and information on healthcare’s most expensive crimes. A provider in Michigan is pleading guilty to Medicare-related fraud for reusing rectal devices. Yes,…
Retired OIG Special Agent and Advize’s Director of Litigation & FWA Support will be stepping in each week to examine current fraud trends from the lens of an investigator. Stay tuned for weekly insights, updates, and information on healthcare’s most expensive crimes. Every day, we read another article or another news release about the ever-changing…
Retired OIG Special Agent and Advize’s Director of Litigation & FWA Support will be stepping in each week to examine current fraud trends from the lens of an investigator. Stay tuned for weekly insights, updates, and information on healthcare’s most expensive crimes. Over the past several weeks, we have seen unprecedented changes to rules, edits…
Retired OIG Special Agent and Advize’s Director of Litigation & FWA Support will be stepping in each week to examine current fraud trends from the lens of an investigator. Stay tuned for weekly insights, updates, and information on healthcare’s most expensive crimes. Recently, I was speaking with a client regarding Chronic Care Management (CCM), and…
Relaxed Doesn’t Mean Right …and it certainly doesn’t imply safe. First, we are seeing it with Cybersecurity. Then, we will see more leniency with HIPAA and FWA around the practices and procedures that are occurring. We have seen unprecedented allowances in the past two months. CMS is relaxing the rules, telehealth is being set up to work…
Retired OIG Special Agent and Advize’s Director of Litigation & FWA Support will be stepping in each week to examine current fraud trends from the lens of an investigator. Stay tuned for weekly insights, updates, and information on healthcare’s most expensive crimes From a resource perspective, we as a nation, and those in the law…
Retired OIG Special Agent and Advize’s Director of Litigation & FWA Support will be stepping in each week to examine current fraud trends from the lens of an investigator. Stay tuned for weekly insights, updates, and information on healthcare’s most expensive crimes. I’m going to preface this by saying what I’m about to write about…
A pandemic is wreaking havoc across the globe. The healthcare system is layered in bureaucracy that stagnates progress and stonewalls idealism. Sometimes, it seems like the fight is futile…but it’s not. What healthcare needs is a disrupter (or disruptor, depending on your preference), and lucky for us, there are already several making waves in the…