Category Archives: Home Healthcare Articles
Miami Patient Recruiter Found Guilty of Medicare Fraud
More Reports of ZPIC Activity in Louisiana
In case you weren’t already aware of this, using a ‘recruiter’ to find Medicare patients for a home health agency is fraud, both on the part of the recruiter and the agency. The story below goes into detail regarding a Miami man who was convicted. You can also read about five nurses who were convicted of fraud for falsifying records to defraud Medicare. These activities continue to be aggressively pursued by the US Attorney’s Office and their Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT). You can hear about their efforts, and more from US Attorney Corey Amundsen at HCLA’s Fall Leadership Summit. Continue reading
Healthcare Fraud Alert – Medical Discount Plans
The following information from the Federal Trade Commission has
been received by LOUISIANA Senior Medicare Patrol. The Louisiana
Attorney General and the US Department of Health and Human Services
want you to protect yourself from possible Medicare fraud. Continue reading
Reasons Why You Can’t Afford to Miss OASIS Answers’ Workshops
Did you know that there have been several major changes to many of the official source documents that instruct home health coders how to assign ICD-9 codes just since September of 2009? Do you know which documents these are, how … Continue reading
