tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 33

Physicians: HOW PICKING THE WRONG BUSINESS PARTNER CAN COST PROVIDERS BIG

Treating a provider number lightly is a dangerous mistake.Traffic in Medicare provider numbers has landed a Los Angeles physician in serious hot water with the feds - and other physicians may be tossed into the cauldron soon. Dr. Lakshmi Nadgir Aug. 18 plead guilty to five counts of health care fraud charges that center on billing Medicare for services she never provided, according to U.S. Attorney Debra Yang. Nadgir admitted to submitting a whopping $5.5 million in bogus claims to the Medicare program, from which she received $2.2 million in reimbursement. From 1997 through May...

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