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Wednesday, November 6, 2019 The Importance of Incorporation and Asset Protection for Home Health and Hospice Agencies Unfortunately, sometimes even your best efforts are insufficient to keep an organization solvent. If your third-party billing company or your practice is forced into bankruptcy, can you be held liable? Are your personal assets at risk? What impact […]
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020 1 p.m. EST / Noon CST / 10:00 a.m. PST OIG Work Plan 2021 – Is Your Home Health, Hospice or Personal Care Agency in the Government’s Crosshairs? The Office of Inspector General’s “Work Plan” is its general audit and investigative plan for the upcoming year. The publication of OIG’s Work
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(January 26, 2021): Under the Anti-Kickback Statute (Anti-Kickback Statute), what constitutes a referral? Notably, neither the term referral nor the term referring (as it is referred to in the law) are defined in the statute. While you may be tempted to argue that a referral only occurs when one party refers a beneficiary to another party
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Robert W. Liles has worked in regulatory compliance as a Federal prosecutor and as defense counsel, for more than 25 years. This has provided a unique perspective on the challenges faced by clients in highly regulated industries such as health care, banking and finance. Mr. Liles focuses his practice on fraud defense, internal audits, investigations,
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(January 13, 2021): Over the last few years, we have noted a significant increase in the number of audits initiated against Chiropractor owned multidisciplinary practices. Typically, these integrated medical practices and clinics employ at least one Chiropractor (typically in an ownership or managerial capacity), along with multiple Doctors of Medicine (MDs), Doctors of Osteopathy (DOs).
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A Medicare participant’s billing privileges can be terminated or revoked for many reasons. [1] Unfortunately, if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) revokes the Medicare billing privileges of a participating provider or supplier, the revocation action may be in effect for up to 10 years. In comparison, if a provider’s Medicare billing privileges
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Ashley Morgan is a partner at Lliles Parker. She focuses her practice on regulatory health care compliance matters, fraud and abuse, and reimbursement issues. Ms. Morgan represents health care providers across the country in connection with a wide variety of health law issues including coverage disputes, documentation concerns, compliance, medical board complaints, and exclusion /
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The most severe administrative sanctions available under the Social Security Act stems from the authority of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) [1] to “exclude” individuals and entities from participating in Federal health care programs. Indeed, an OIG Exclusion [2] imposed by the OIG is
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Liles Parker attorneys have decades of experience practicing health care law. Several of our attorneys served as Federal prosecutors and held significant positions at the U.S. Department of Justice. Our health care transactional and regulatory attorneys have the knowledge and counseling skills necessary to efficiently resolve your health care business issues at the lowest possible
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(Updated December 2020): Of the many contractors working for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Unified Program Integrity Contractors (UPICs) are by far the serious financial threat to your practice, home health, hospice or DME company. A UPIC audit is serious business. Simply put, the UPIC program was intended to consolidate the work
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