Federal Fraud and Abuse Control Program, revisions to current sanctions and to criminal law, civil monetary penalties and amendment to the anti-kickback statute.
Read More »Challenging Medicare teaching physician audits
Key features of Office of Inspector General audits, including OIG’s new voluntary audits. Offers interpretations of: physical presence of teaching physician, documentation, undercoding and penalties.
Read More »Physician unions: Bad for them and us
Physician unions will erode physicians' greatest asset: the relationship they have with their patients, argues James Unland, acting executive director of Millennium Physician Organization.
Read More »Tobacco control enforcement turns serious
Watershed progress in curbing tobacco sales to minors in Philadelphia.
Read More »IRS policing of tax-exempt organizations
Personal liability risks that physicians in nonprofit health care organizations have to avoid or face penalties for "excess benefit transactions" under the recently passed Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights II.
Read More »Design for a new medical office
A strategic look at office layout: what your office should have—and what it should avoid.
Read More »Tort reform may not reduce liability
A critical look at medical liability reform "progress" from a litigator’s perspective reveals a potential raw deal.
Read More »PA’s certificate of need sunset
A handy summary of what has happened, what is affected and how other state agencies have said they will respond.
Read More »Web-based protocol information management
Coordinating cancer treatment protocols across a hospital network is a demanding task. See how it can be made more manageable using the World Wide Web.
Read More »Hazards ahead for AMCs
Gordon K. MacLeod, M.D., itemizes warning signs for medical education’s future. The signs represent a trend to be reckoned with.
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