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Two Georgia dermatologists will pay nearly $2 million to settle charges that they unnecessarily stretched out simple procedures over several office visits – and billed E/M codes each time.

A law enforcement warrant overrides HIPAA when it comes to the seizure of protected health information (PHI) -- but what about a legislative subpoena? That's being asked in Missouri, where lawmakers are trying to access patient records -- but two Part B News experts think they don't have a case.

Come March 27, physician providers in New York will be forced to cast any writing instruments aside -- at least when it comes to writing prescriptions.
Six years ago today, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) into law here's what Part B News wrote on March 23, 2010.
Did your practice participate in the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals’ settlement pilot project? If so, we’d love to hear the story of how your practice fared — regardless of whether it agreed to a settlement and got out of the massive backlog of appeals at the administrative law judge level.
 
Please contact editor Josh Poltilove at jpoltilove@decisionhealth.com or (301) 287-2593.
 

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