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Three Recent Fraud Cases Involving Dermatologists Illustrate Primary Compliance Risks in Dermatology Practices

Posted on April 5, 2017 by
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Three relatively recent cases involving dermatology billing practices illustrate some of the main compliance risks faced by dermatology practices.  These risk areas include: Improper use of multiple removal CPT codes; Billing for “impossibly long days”; Failure to follow supervisions rules required to permit “incident to” billing; Creating incentives for overutilization; and Performing “outlier” levels of […]

The Case of the Very Very Impossibly Long, Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Posted on February 28, 2017 by
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How Fraud and Abuse Cases Arise in a Medical Practice It is no secret many doctors work very long days.  Some days are worse and some are better than others.  As a compliance lawyer, my job is to attempt to prevent doctors from having Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Days.  In my experience, this […]