tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 32

Medicaid Probe Drives Supplier Out Of Business

DME suppliers should repeat this mantra:  documentation, documentation, documentation.A recent investigation focusing on three compliance hot spots should remind durable medical equipment suppliers they can't let up on documentation efforts for Medicaid. Failure to keep on top of documentation can be catastrophic, as a Brighton, MA supplier recently learned. According to Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly, Leonid Kopilevich, operator of Elaine Mishel Shoe Store - a DME supplier since 1985 - agreed to settle Medicaid fraud allegations by paying more than $336,000. On top of that, Kopilevich and his mother, Elaine Mishel co-owner Rosalaya Kopilevich, were not...

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