Laboratory Question for the Week of June 2, 2025
Bryan Nordley
June 2, 2025
Can codes 88311-88314 be billed individually?
Monday, June 5, 2017
10-10:30 a.m. ET; 7-7:30 a.m. PT
SPECIAL GUEST
Michael Rosen, Esq.
ALSO FEATURING
Janelle Ali-Dinar, PhD; David Glaser, Esq.; Ronald Hirsch, MD, FACP, CHCQM;
Juliet B. Ugarte Hopkins, MD, CHCQM-PHYADV; Edward Roche, PhD, JD; and Bob Soltis
Healthcare fraud and convictions are on the rise, according to the latest report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG). Convictions for drug diversion increased during 2015, and more than a third of the convictions involved personal care services. Details about this trend and more will be reported in the next edition of Monitor Mondays, when Michael Rosen, co-founder of ProviderTrust, will outline the 2016 OIG Medicaid Fraud Compliance Performance Report, explaining how your facility should remain compliant.
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