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Florida Home Health Company Pays $2.1M to Resolve False Claims Allegations

Healthcare Compliance Blog

A home health services company headquartered in Kentucky, and its related entities, paid $2.1 million to the United States government to settle claims of improperly billing the Medicare Program for home health services provided to beneficiaries living in Florida.

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Home Health Provider Sues Medicare Contractor and HHS Over Unfair Audit and Denied Medicare Reimbursement Payments

The Health Law Firm

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On March 2, 2017, an Illinois home health care provider launched a class action law suit against Medicare reimbursement auditor AdvanceMed and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price. Indest III, J.D.,

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Pennsylvania Man Excluded from All Federal Healthcare Programs for 22 Years 

Healthcare Compliance Blog

His exclusion means that no federal healthcare program payment may be made, either directly or indirectly, for any items or services furnished by him or at his direction or prescription. Between 2017 and 2019, the man, through a group of pain clinics he controlled, caused the submission of false claims for payment to Medicare.

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Nursing Home Provider to Pay over $5.5M in Civil False Claims Settlement

Med-Net Compliance

An Indiana provider of skilled nursing and long-term care services has agreed to pay $5,591,044.66 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to the Medicare program. The complaint alleged that the provider had engaged in conduct to defraud the Medicare program. to the United States.

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CMS’s Administrative Simplification Rule Aims to Increase Efficiency and Standardization for Health Care Attachments

Healthcare Law Blog

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), recently issued a proposed rule to adopt standards under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) for “health care attachment” transactions (the “Proposed Rule”).

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Ineligible Medicaid Provider Arrested for Defrauding Medicaid of More Than $68K

Healthcare Compliance Blog

The provider had created a business to provide home and community-based services to Medicaid recipients. The provider had created a business to provide home and community-based services to Medicaid recipients. An ineligible Medicaid provider was arrested in Florida for defrauding Medicaid of more than $68,000.

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CMS Issues Proposed Rule to Standardize Electronic Health Care Attachments Transactions and Electronic Signature under HIPAA

C&M Health Law

This builds on the HIPAA Transactions Rule standards for financial and administrative transactions among health care providers and health plans and aligns with Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) interoperability regulations.

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