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tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 10
PHYSICIAN NOTES: Carriers Tout Safeguard Hauls
Medicare carriers are boasting once again about the financial fallout from their medical review, fraud-fighting and other payment safeguard activities. Trailblazer Health Enterprises LLC boasts $832 million in payment safeguard savings in 2002, up from $792.1 million the previous year. Trailblazer is the Part B carrier for Texas, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents May 1 arrested the medical director of a Houston-area physical therapy clinic based on charges that he signed off on physician's evaluations for patients he never examined. According to U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby's...
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