tci Part B Insider - 2013 Issue 30

Physician Notes: 'Mobile' Physician Service Charged With Fraud

Plus: CMS refers ICD-10 date-span questions to local MACs. Making house calls isn’t known as being especially lucrative—unless the physician in question pumps up his or her charges exponentially higher than a legitimate service would pay. Such is the case in question that was part of a $2.568 million alleged fraud ring that involved several Midwestern physicians and their mobile physician services. The service was known for making house calls in six states, but the doctors who performed the in-home patient visits allegedly charged for services that were significantly more complicated and time-consuming than what they...

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