tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 2

Rehab: CARDIAC REHAB AUDIT SHOWS PROVIDERS SKIPPING A BEAT

What all rehab provider types can learn from outpatient cardiac mistakes.  Outpatient cardiac rehab providers have fallen under the HHS Office of Inspector General's microscope - and four billing hotspots have emerged that could easily burn all rehab providers.Redding Medical Center in Redding, CA was at the center of a landmark $54 million settlement involving the alleged performance of medically unnecessary invasive heart procedures and soon will be sold to an unrelated third party under terms acceptable to the OIG. But the facility is also one of many hospitals scrutinized in a recent round of the watchdog...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement.


Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations — and onboard your team — with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI's Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement Alert will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, payer policies, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 4200 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 2003 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles
Access to this feature is available in the following products:
  • tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement +Archives

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.