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(August 27, 2010): Additional cities will be getting Medicare fraud HEAT teams. Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder and U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius conducted the second of a planned series of “Regional Health Care Fraud Prevention Summits.” In addition to these agency heads, participants learned of current and […]
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(June 25, 2010): Cities have the authority, usually provided by State statute, to regulate dangerous and substandard buildings and structures. In Texas, a City has to pass an ordinance to activate its ability to regulate dangerous buildings and structures. See TEX. LOC. GVT CODE § 214 Subchapter A. Before taking action against a dangerous building,
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(May 10, 2010): Inevitably a service provider, such as an IT professional or a vendor supplying coffee or coke machines, will sign a year-to-year or a 3-5 year contract with a City. Depending on the particular city, the contract may be signed by a City Officer such as the City Manager, City Administrator, or even
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(May 10, 2010): Whenever a company contracts to provide construction work for a city on public property, the company should always check the state law that governs the city in regards to mechanic liens against the land where the public property is located. And the city should always make sure of what rights it has
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(May 10, 2010): Normally there is statute of limitations that will apply to most civil lawsuits. This means that a claim must be filed in Court within a certain time after the action complained about occurred. For instance, in Texas, if you are involved in a motor vehicle accident and suffer an injury you must
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(July 14, 2010): Imagine a Zone Program Integrity Contractor (ZPIC) handing you a claim analysis rife with alleged errors, an indecipherable list of statistical formulae, and an extrapolated recovery demand that will cripple your practice or clinic. What steps should you take to analyze their work? Based on our experience, providers can and should carefully
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(July 7, 2010): Earlier today, President Obama announced the recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to be the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). He was nominated on April 19, 2010. According to the White House’s press release, Dr. Berwick is a pediatrician, Harvard University professor, and President and Chief Executive
President Obama Appoints Dr. Donald Berwick as the New Head of CMS. Read More »
(July 2, 2010): The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) audit program involving Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) is now permanent and nationwide. As we discussed in Part I of this series, while small providers were largely ignored during the demonstration program, physicians, home health, hospice, and durable medical equipment (DME) suppliers should be on
(June 29, 2010): In Part I of this series, we reacquainted you with the design and purpose of the now permanent Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Program. Although RACs largely focused on inpatient care during CMS’ demonstration program, RACs are a real threat to small providers that don’t have the intensive compliance programs in place that
(April 26, 2010): Part III: Analysis and Conclusion In the midst of an economic downturn, headlines are filled with accounts of failed corporations and bankruptcies as well as notorious government bailouts. There are many threatened lawsuits directed at officers and Directors of corporations for breaches of their fiduciary duties or seeking judicial declarations that corporations
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