tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 7

MEDICARE: OIG Gives Coding Company a Seminar in Pain

Have you been duped by coding and billing education companies that tout nonexistent 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 on April 3 socked La Mesa, Calif.-based U.S. Seminar Corp. with a demand letter seeking more than $1 million in fines for misusing the word "Medi-care" 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...

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