Healthcare 3.1

Healthcare & Business Law for Providers & Clinics

Month: January, 2011

Texas Healthcare Fraud re Kickbacks

Two owners of a Houston health care company pled guilty today in connection with an alleged $5.2 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS).  The two owners each pled guilty in Houston to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, one count of conspiracy to pay [...]

NO PRESENT MANDATE FOR EHR ON INTERNET

Courtesy of John Conniff Providers won’t have to convert all your medical records and make them available on the web by 2012. Not only is such a task technically impossible right now but the no such legal requirement exists. While many public and private organizations are working to develop and implement an electronic medical records [...]