tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 20

PHYSICIAN NOTES: Non-Compliant CMNs Place You At Risk

Latest physician-supplier scam allegedly billed Medicare $3.7 million Before you sign a certificate of medical necessity for durable medical equipment, be sure your compliance program is keeping you in the fold with Medicare regulations. It's not just power wheelchair fraud keeping the feds busy either. In the latest DME go-round out of Texas, Dr. Delio Garcia Romeu was arrested May 12 along with Francisco Giron Flores, Jr., the owner and operator of Texas-based DME companies Bedside Medical Equipment and Supplies and CLD Medical Supply. For five years the DME supplier allegedly paid Dr. Romeu more than $30,000...

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