The Texas Medical Center surveyed 5,000 people across the United States and found that the #1 reason for poll participation in the upcoming midterm elections will be, you guessed it, healthcare. While this interest in healthcare is certainly encouraging, there’s more to the healthcare picture than just cost to patients. In the spirit of Halloween…
Advize Health’s first webinar of the new year will be broadcasting live today from 2:00PM EST until 3:30pm EST. The program will break down the 2018 OIG Work Plan and provide an in-depth examination at the OIG (Office of Inspector General) and their efforts in the fight against fraud. From mandatory requirements, to laws and…
This article is a continuation of Risky Retrievals. Walk-Ins Welcome Our medical record specialists are required to arrive at each facility with their equipment, as well as their ID badges and driver’s licenses. This is to ensure that their identities can be verified by office staff and reporting in the event of an incident. What…
For years, whenever we began launching a medical record review project, clients and physicians alike would ask us the same question: Why can’t you come onsite to pick up the requested records? The easy answer would have been to say that we simply hadn’t performed record retrievals before, but we had vested interest in doing…
Medicare fraud maintains its position among the fastest growing crimes in the United States. The government loses nearly $75 billion a year to Medicare fraud; which has led to the conception of several anti-fraud initiatives, including the OIG’s Operation Whack-A-Mole (WAM). Medicare fraud comes in many shapes and forms, with the three most popular including:…
Federal healthcare fraud recoveries totaled upwards of $2B in the first half 2017’s fiscal year. This staggering sum is proof enough that healthcare fraud is here to stay as an unfortunate reality of the industry. Providers, patients, and insurers alike have all been complicit in various scams and schemes – which brings to mind the…
Last year we had the ONE AND ONLY cheapest.booth.ever featured at NHCAA’s Annual Training Conference. This year Advize brought guacamole and cookies to the table at the Even Cheaper Cheapest Booth Ever. Advize Health had the honor of speaking with some of NHCAA’s Annual Training Conference (ATC) attendees right in our backyard. The ATC is widely-regarded…
Advize Health Managing Director Jeanmarie Loria chats with ITSPmagazine’s Selena Templeton for the Diverse IT podcast about their E/M Calculator, a free tool which is revolutionizing medical record auditing and billing for the healthcare industry. Tune in to hear about this software application that can be used by any healthcare worker regardless of coding experience…
Law firms have been known to enlist the help of a third-party when dealing with healthcare fraud cases. This is because in addition to investigating the allegations against one party, there is a myriad of additional pre-litigation considerations. In multi-faceted cases in which health plan overpayments are being pursued within the judicial system an audit…
Picture yourself balancing on top of a fence with vast expanses of land, each with their own set of governance, visible to you from both sides. You’re straddling the fence, your legs occupying each of the divided spaces. Where do you stand? It depends on which way the wind blows. Such is the case with…