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Providers who use eClinicalWorks and thought something was a bit off about the electronic health record's (EHR's) performance may feel vindicated by this news: The EHR vendor will pay $155 million and enter a corporate integrity agreement to settle a number of allegations, including that for several years it had lied about the platform’s capabilities so it could receive meaningful use certification.
Normally the old adage, “waste not, want not,” would be a reliable rule of thumb to live by. But when you’re trying to stay compliant with Medicare billing rules for drugs and supplies, wasting leftover medications is often the better idea -- as federal prosecutors recently showed a corner-cutting neurologist.
Scam artists are trying a new way to get people to hand over their personal information including bank account numbers: They're posing as officials of the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG).
Be on the lookout, fraudsters: The federal governent is bearing down hard on misappropriated Medicare funds. A new report shows that the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC), combining efforts of HHS and the Department of Justice (DOJ), returned $1.7 billion to the Medicare Trust Fund in 2016.
Perhaps human evolution someday will allow us to provide care to the souls of the deceased, but until that time comes, CMS had better shore up its claims allowances.

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