Dr. Kingsley R. Chin was little more than a decade out of Harvard Medical School when sales of his spine surgical implants took off. Chin has patented more than 40 pieces of such hardware, including doughnut-shaped plastic cages, titanium screws and other products used to repair spines — generating $100 million for his company SpineFrontier,…
Next Week On The Blog: Jeanmarie Loria sits down with her partner Eric Rubenstein, retired OIG Agent, to ask him why he had more cases on pharmacy pain management and DME than dental fraud. Dental fraud stinks worse than the most severe case of halitosis. Picture this. Brooklyn NY 1960. All 5 of…
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 You are a provider, and one day while seeing patients, agents from the…
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. The past few days, I have spent time speaking to industry and government…
Florida is a hot state, but it’s also been named a Hot State for healthcare fraud by several agencies. Two of the most common questions that we’re asked here at Advize Health are: 1) What do you do, and 2) Why are you located in Florida? Our responses to both questions are heavily rooted in…
On Tuesday, Advize Health kicked off our 2nd Annual 12 Days of Giving event with season’s greetings and holiday specials on our RN/LPN CPC Bootcamp and CPC Prep Courses. Today, we’d like to showcase the incredible acts of kindness that have been offered to the community by our team of auditors, interns, and associates. From…
Test your medical terminology knowledge! Can you match up the appropriate numbers from 1-10 that correspond to each of the medical terms? Visual exam of the urinary bladder Deficiency of red blood cells Pain in joint Inflammation of the small intestine Benign tumor of gland High blood sugar Removal of Kidney Red blood cell Removal…