Beware of sales people attempting to sell you a new and improved machine that will miraculously double your income. Do NOT take as gospel the CPT codes they “suggest” you use. Often, they will show you examples of how well their clients did billing under these codes. YOU are responsible for [...]
continue readingEven though the police pulled you over while you were not treating patients, if you plead to even a misdemeanor, that will be reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank, also known as your permanent professional report card. If you have been either found guilty by a jury or admitted your [...]
continue readingPlease do not forget to sign your Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) forms, electronically or otherwise. It must be a valid signature of else the government, under the False Claims Act can claim fraud! A substitute signature is NOT valid! This was just recently decided by a federal district court in [...]
continue readingThe CDC has advised of "misapplication" of the CDC Guideline for Chronic Pain and Prescribing Opioids. It states in part: "When opioids are started, clinicians should prescribe the lowest effective dosage. Clinicians should avoid increasing dosage to 90 or more morphine equivalent units per day. The recommendation statement does not suggest [...]
continue readingIf a patient falls while leaving the office and injures herself, is it medical malpractice? I hate to sound like an attorney, but it depends. If the patient was discharged after anesthesia and was unsteady on her feet, maybe. If the doctor’s medical assistant negligently helped the patient off the examining [...]
continue readingI have recently been inundated with comments about an article that I wrote. It was published by a major magazine concerning the applicability of various Preferred Practice Guidelines concerning professional licensure and disciplinary actions. While it might make a practitioner feel better to moan over the guidelines sustaining “cook book” medicine, [...]
continue readingTwo investigators flashing badges come unannounced and unscheduled to visit your office. What should you do? If they do not have a warrant to search, be polite, but ask them to leave the premises. Inform them that you have an attorney and your attorney will be happy to contact them. Ask [...]
continue readingI have had several clients who have run afoul of a statute, that upon examination was a “violation” not a misdemeanor. In such a case, you have not been convicted of a “crime”. A violation is akin to a parking ticket. Why is this important? When you are completing credentialing applications, [...]
continue reading“The Feds” are now computing batting averages for those who prescribe for opioids. For those who prescribe opioids, beware that big data enables the government to compute what your average morphine equivalent dose prescription is. This in turn, alerts them as to possible problems in your prescribing patterns. Just one more [...]
continue readingPlease do not forget to sign your HCFA forms, electronically or otherwise. It must be a valid signature or else the government, under the False Claims Act can claim fraud! A substitute signature is NOT valid! This was just recently decided by a federal district court in US ex rel Kelly [...]
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