by Advize Admin | Aug 2, 2023 | Advize News
Scottsdale was hot AF (Hot As Fraud) – temperatures were way over 105, and hot Medicaid Fraud topics were discussed. The National Association for Medicaid Program Integrity (NAMPI) has an annual training conference. This conference brings together the public and...
by Advize Admin | Sep 16, 2022 | Commentary
This week’s topic is patient advocacy. As the season of enrollment is upon us, we think about what makes this difficult-to-understand process easier for everyone. Google could potentially be making it easier for enrolling in Medicare and/or Medicaid. ...
by Advize Admin | Jun 3, 2022 | Healthcare, Technology
Andrea Veltman and son Merlin lost their health coverage after bad information was entered into a computer system shared by Covered California and Medi-Cal. Andrea Veltman’s subsidized Covered California health plan and Merlin’s Medi-Cal coverage were...
by Advize Admin | Apr 8, 2022 | Healthcare
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Prescription drug costs for California’s massive Medicaid program were draining the state budget, so in 2019 Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the private sector for help. The new Medicaid drug program debuted this January, with a private company in...
by Advize Admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Healthcare
Aneka French applied for Medicaid in October, not long after Missouri became the 38th state to expand eligibility for the program. But her application sat for months in a backlog with tens of thousands of others. While she waited, French, 45, an uninsured medical...
by Advize Admin | Feb 4, 2022 | Commentary
Do you think 15M people will lose Medicaid when the pandemic ends? The Medicaid market has been changing in unprecedented rates since the start of the Pandemic and there are some good things to come from such a terrible time. This week, I attended the Medicaid...
by Advize Admin | Jan 11, 2022 | Healthcare
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s sweeping new program to buy Rx drugs for its nearly 14 million Medicaid patients has alarmed health clinics that say they will lose money and have to cut services. Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged Monday that some clinics, which serve...
by Advize Admin | Sep 17, 2021 | Commentary
“One-hundred percent of medical records have errors,” Heather Gantzer, MD, immediate past chair of the American College of Physicians’ Board of Regents, told MedPage Today. Well, that is a strong quote. Not sure we agree with all medical...
by Advize Admin | Sep 10, 2021 | Healthcare
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — In her 19 years of living with cerebral palsy, scoliosis and other ailments, Cynthia Enriquez De Santiago has endured about 60 surgeries and her heart has flatlined at least four times. But the most unusual doctor’s referral of her life came...
by Advize Admin | Aug 13, 2021 | Retro Fraud Podcast
In episode 3 of the Retro Fraud Podcast, Eric engages in a really interesting case discussion with Matt Lawhon. Matt, who is currently a healthcare attorney in the Dallas area (M B Lawhon Law Firm, PLLC), spent a number of years both as an investigator for a Medicare...
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