tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 15

Medicare: OIG SLAMS CODING SEMINAR COMPANY

Have you been duped by coding and billing education companies that tout non-existent formal affiliations with Medicare? If so you're not alone - and the HHS Office of Inspector General is fighting mad about it. Indeed, the watchdog agency April 3 socked La Mesa, CA-based U.S. Seminar Corp. with a demand letter seeking more than $1 million in fines for misusing the word "Medicare" on its marketing materials. The OIG maintains that U.S. Seminar sent out thousands of solicitations suggesting that Medicare or the Department of Health and Human Services formally approved, endorsed or authorized its coding...

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