tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 5

FRAUD AND ABUSE: Wake-Up Call for Telemarketing Suppliers

Disturbing people during dinner could be the least risky problem in telemarketing to home medical equipment beneficiaries. You could be courting disaster if you let your employees or a third-party contractor telephone beneficiaries outside of the scenarios in which Medicare allows such calls. You could find yourself facing False Claims Act charges, the HHS Office of Inspector General warns suppliers in a Special Fraud Alert issued March 3. Suppliers should heed the OIG's warning, says attorney Carolyn McElroy with Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo in Washington. Even though suppliers know telemarketing is a no-no except under very...

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