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Dental Fraud Schemes Uncovered

Compliancy Group

In one case, the dentist himself was involved, practicing on a revoked license. for Medicaid Fraud In March 2014, the Maryland Board of Dental Examiners received complaints against Seyed Hamid Tofigh, DDS, claiming the dentist posed a risk of harm, and suspended his license. As a result, his license was revoked in 2015.

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House bill would compel states to join the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

and Guam, was formally introduced in the fall of 2014 in recognition of the fact that physicians will increasingly practice in different states via telehealth. Physicians can qualify to practice medicine in multiple states, receiving separate licenses for each, via one application within the compact. Ted Yoho, R-Fla.,

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Another Legislative Attempt to Revive Gene Patenting

Bill of Health

More recently, as I have written previously , the unavailability of patents on genomic sequences has enabled researchers around the world to study the SARS-CoV-2 viral genome without fear of patent infringement and without the need to negotiate complex patent licensing agreements and pay royalties to the first researchers to determine its sequence.

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Eight Major Chinese Medical Schools No Longer Listed in World Directory Relied on by ECFMG and USMLE

The Health Law Firm Blog

is Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law In April 2014, the new World Directory of Medical Schools ("World Directory") was published. By George F. Indest III, J.D., It took over as the definitive list of medical schools in the world (yes, the whole world). There are 180 Chinese medical schools [.]

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Is Your Provider Data Getting Lost in Your Master Data Management?

Symplr

In 2004, President Bush set a goal for every American to have an electronic health record (EHR) by 2014. The goal was that better and safer care could be delivered through more complete knowledge of a patient that was accessible in a secure repository.

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Preventing Unlicensed Individuals and Subsequent Fraudulent Claims Submission

Provider Trust

District Attorney alleges that Pickering was hired in 2019 as a licensed physician’s assistant at a family practice in Norcross, Georgia but had not been a licensed physician’s assistant in Georgia, or any state, since March 2014. The Importance of Conducting License Verification and Monitoring. According to the U.S.

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California and North Dakota Hospitals Report Cyberattacks

HIPAA Journal

Fernald Developmental Center campus in Waltham, MA, which was sold to the city of Waltham in 2014. The documents had been improperly stored in the buildings since 2014 and many had degraded, so it was not possible to tell the exact types of information that had been exposed.