tci Part B Insider - 2011 Issue 25

Physician Notes: Physician Nailed for Role in $200 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

Plus: Medicare now covers Provenge® for prostate cancer patients. Medicare wants physicians' signatures on their charts--but only if they're signing off on work they actually performed. A Florida physician faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to healthcare fraud this week, during which he was accused of signing evaluations, notes, and other documents for patients who did not require the treatments given and documented. The physician was a psychiatrist who knew that many of the patients attending the partial hospitalization program where he worked did not require intensive mental health treatments, but signed files without examining...

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