tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 14

COVERAGE: Don't Stick Patients For Services Medicare May Pay For

Watch for gray areas of services Medicare may or may not cover.Medical practices that charge patients a monthly or annual fee for extra attention could receive some extra attention from the feds.Two warnings: The feds have warned against so-called "concierge care" twice in recent years. In 2002, then-HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson wrote a letter to Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) explaining that physicians aren't allowed to bill Medicare patients for any services that Medicare might cover, notes John Marquis, an attorney with the firm of Warner, Norcross and Judd in Grand Rapids, MI.Then, the HHS Office of...

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