tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 38

More OIG Probes On The Way

According to its 2005 Work Plan, the HHS Office of Inspector General plans to investigate in the coming year:    whether Medicare improperly made payments to physicians while they were on duty at Veterans Administration hospitals.    whether physicians who have been excluded from Medicare have wrongly billed Medicare anyway.    the relationships between physicians who perform pathology services, such as examining cells or tissue samples, in their offices and outside pathology companies.    physicians billing for the professional and technical components of cardiography and echocardiography services. When a physician performs an interpretation separately, he/she...

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