tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2018 Issue 9

Utilize These 5 Provider Resources for Opioid Crisis Questions

From prescribing to prevention, the feds have a site for it. If you look closely, you can see a common thread that binds many of the high-profile Medicare fraud and abuse cases. From large-scale takedowns to small town fraudsters, the opioid epidemic continues to impact patients and providers everywhere. History: According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the opioid epidemic hit the United States in three distinct waves starting in 1999, with more than 630,000 deaths since then attributed to the drugs. The first wave rose from "increased prescribing in the 1990s" while the next ripple saw...

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