On September 5, 2013, owners of Trust Care Health Services, Inc. (Trust Care) pled guilty in a Florida federal court to federal healthcare fraud charges. Roberto Marrero, Sandra Fernandez and Enrique Rodriguez, owned and operated Trust Care. Trust Care was a Florida corporation, incorporated in 2005 that did business as…
The price Americans will pay for Affordable Care Act (ACA) changes may include lost wages and job benefits due to the price tag of ACA compliance for employers. It may seem to many like a good and noble thing to require insurers to insure everyone irrespective of health conditions and…
The Medicare Strike Force of the FBI and HHS-OIG continues efforts to eliminate fraudulent healthcare providers from the healthcare arena. The Strike Force recently obtained a guilty plea by the former owner of a California durable medical equipment supply company (DME) business based on an alleged scheme to defraud Medicare…
The U.S. House voted recently to delay the so-called “individual mandate” of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). On July 17, 2013, the House passed the Fairness for American Families Act, H.R. 2668, sponsored by Rep. Todd Young (R-IN). Passage of H.R. 2668 sets the stage for a political show down…
The trend for physicians to work for a hospital or hospital system continues. Once a physician finds a job opportunity, one of the first details the physician and the hiring entity may discuss is the nature of the relationship. Will the doctor be an employee or an independent contractor? Often…
Steve Brenton, President of the Wisconsin Hospital Association, released a forceful judgment of the Obama Administration’s decision to delay by at least one year implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer mandate, calling it a “dogs breakfast.” As reported in the Milwaukee Business Journal, Brenton cited five very negative…
Efficiency in practice, an InHealth Company, features Kevin Little’s Guidelines for Physician Review of Health Plan Contracts.
Nationwide there is much consternation and debate about what sort of “healthcare reform” might cure our health care system’s many ills, its growing price tag in particular. Of course, there is no shortage of answers and opinions about possible solutions or improvements. To be sure, the issue is highly complex,…
Medical Association of Georgia presents for its 7,000 member physicians Guidelines for Physician Review of Health Plan Contracts, prepared by Kevin S. Little.
The “EHR Improvements Act,” a bill (HR 1309) recently introduced by Rep. Diane Black (R-TN), would, if passed, mean that doctors close to retirement age might not incur Medicare payment cuts as a result of failing to implement an electronic health record (EHRs) system. Additionally, the bill would make solo…