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Investigators and prosecutors continue to use their coding knowledge to wring big settlements from practices. These tactics have left four physician practices poorer by an average of $218,465, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Maryland announced on March 16.

It's a familiar scenario: A provider is accused of letting unqualified, improperly supervised employees perform services and billing for their work. It is a scenario we associate with small practices, not a large health system with multiple locations and — one assumes — a robust compliance policy.
Don't believe the myth that enforcers only keep the big fish in health care fraud schemes — hospitals, diagnostic providers, pharmaceutical companies and so on — and let the small fry such as doctors and medical practices go.

On the heels of two similar settlements, a Baltimore health system has settled a case for $122,928 in which it was accused of getting the doctors whose practice it had acquired to bill established patients as if they were new, inflating their charges.

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