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05/03/12 | SOURCE: The Miami Herald
If you thought Medicare fraud had faded as a crime, think again. On Wednesday, the feds charged 107 suspects with submitting $452 million in false bills to Medicare in seven U.S. cities; a majority in Florida.
04/26/12 | SOURCE: Forbes
With so much instability Allscripts could fast lose credibility with investors, and more importantly with customers. Those who had adopted a wait-and-see attitude over the new product might decide to drop Allscripts altogether from consideration.
04/26/12 | SOURCE: Health News Florida
The practice “routinely provided less care, or no care at all, to capitated care patients as compared with patients covered by traditional insurance,” the complaint says.
04/18/12 | SOURCE: ModernPhysician.com
A coalition of physician associations has joined hospital organizations in protesting a proposed rule from the CMS that calls for providers and suppliers to return excess payments within 60 days after the overpayments are identified.
04/18/12 | SOURCE: Tampa Bay Business Journal
Tampa Bay Business Journal is currently surveying for its annual list of the top 25 Bay area physician groups.
04/15/12 | SOURCE: Kaiser Health News in Collaboration with The Washington Post
Medicare officials are trying to refine the way they judge doctors as they follow the health care law’s directive to phase in the new payment system.
