5.6.2021
As you are likely aware by now, Medicare has issued a waiver providing for reimbursement of ground ambulance services without transport under specific situations. The waiver applies to emergency ground ambulance services in response to a 911 or equivalent call in which a transport that would have been medically necessary, but did not occur due to a community-wide EMS protocol resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. You should talk with your billing department or billing provider about the billing and reimbursement processes involved….
4.7.2021
The DOJ has released its stats related to False Claims Act (FCA) cases from 2020. While healthcare compliance programs became mandatory after Obamacare for anyone billing Medicare and Medicaid, one of the primary purposes of your compliance program is avoiding prosecution under the FCA, and the massive penalties and/or prison sentences that come along with it.
Significantly, 2020 saw the largest number of new FCA cases initiated in a single year. Strikingly,…
