VA Proposal Would Expand Access to Care Via Telemedicine
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Challenged by limited healthcare resources, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has issued a proposal that would allow VA healthcare ...
Read More GAO: CMS Fraud Prevention Working
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The days of “pay and chase†in the world of healthcare fraud are waning thanks to fraud prevention methods that ...
Read More Government Cracking Down on Genetic Testing Labs
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
As the use of genetic testing has grown in popularity, so too have the number of investigations into allegations that ...
Read More CMS Issues Guidance on When a Hospital is a Hospital
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Is your hospital really a hospital? Well, that depends on whether Medicare deems it so. Earlier this month, the Centers ...
Read More Joint Commission Issues Alert on Hand-off Communication
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
“What we have here is a failure to communicate†is a line from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke. It’s ...
Read More The FCA and the Use of Statistical Sampling
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
The U.S. Department of Justice late last month agreed to a $275,000 settlement in a False Claims Act case against ...
Read More New vs. Established Patient Billing: Are You Doing It Properly?
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
It’s no secret that the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG) has been ...
Read More CMS Revamps Medicare Audit Strategy
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
Good news for some healthcare providers and not so good news for others. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid has ...
Read More Have Physicians Embraced the Use of End-of-Life Billing Codes?
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
It’s been about a year since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved payment for voluntary end-of-life counseling ...
Read More Proposed Opioid Bill Ensures Patient Privacy While Helping MDs Make Rx Decisions
By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale |
An estimated one-in-three Americans had a prescription for opioids in 2015 and that number continues to grow. With that growth ...
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