tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 12

COMPLIANCE: Don't Charge Patients For Services Medicare Already Covers

Beware gray areas of services Medicare may or may not reimburseIf your practice charges patients a monthly or annual fee for extra attention, you could receive some extra attention of your own - 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 Warner, Norcross and Judd in Grand Rapids, MI.Then, the HHS Office of...

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