Archive for The Day of March 23rd, 2006
Archive for the Day of March 23rd, 2006
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of March 23rd, 2006.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during March 23rd, 2006.
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Paying For Performance May Improve The Quality of Medical Care
P4P is a revolutionary method of figuring medical billing payments. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced that the method of “paying for performance” works to improve the quality of a patient’s care. The current medical billing demonstration that took place had encouraging results for CMS. The areas in which the pay for performance method has been shown to improve the most care is with pneumonia, hip and knee replacements, and heart care. These improvements of care were shown in the first year of the trial run. Only certain hospitals took part in this medical billing study. In the second year of the trial, the quality of care …
Ohio’s Crackdown on Medical Billing Fraud
Recently, several Ohio home health providers have been caught red handed in medical billing fraud. There is nothing worse than medical billing fraud. It costs the United States citizens billions of dollars each and every year. To prevent this fraud, the state of Ohio created a task force to investigate Medicaid providers. This task force found four separate incidences of medical billing fraud. One of the main cases found was with Community Home Health Services Inc and Kevin Dennis. Apparently, this organization billed Medicaid over $32 million dollars in fraudulent payments between June of 2000 and May of 2005. Kevin Dennis used $650,000 of this fraudulent medical billing for his …
