tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 41

Physician Notes: Feds Demand $1.9 Million To Cleanse Temple

Straying from the right PATH could cost millions If your doctors claim they're treating patients personally in the hospital, you'd better have the documentation ready to prove it, or you could be millions of dollars poorer.Temple University Physicians, the physician practice of Temple University School of Medicine, agreed to pay $1.875 million to settle charges that TUP claimed its physicians provided services personally, without enough documentation to show that they really did. The feds examined 100 TUP patient files from 1995 and 1996 as part of the Physicians at Teaching Hospitals (PATH) initiative, and projected the results...

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