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Regulatory
DOJ charges 149 people for hundreds of millions of dollars of healthcare fraud, drug diversion
by Paige Minemyer | Sep 30, 2019 The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced several healthcare fraud takedowns of late, resulting in dozens of charges,…
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Healthcare Vantage
UC San Diego Health, UCI Health Select Phynd as Information Management Platform
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed., September 4, 2019 UC San Diego Health has selected Phynd Technologies, Inc., located in Dallas,…
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Spine
Titan Spine CEO: New Medical Billing Code Will Be ‘Big Selling Point’
By Jeff Buchanan – July 19, 2016 Last week, Mequon, WI-based Titan Spine made a pair of announcements related to…
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Financial
DJO Global Uses Dell Boomi AtomSphere to Help Healthcare Providers Increase Revenue and Focus on Patient Outcomes
As a global provider of durable medical equipment (DME), DJO Global provides solutions for musculoskeletal health, vascular health and pain…
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Financial
SI-BONE, Inc.® Announces Increased Medicare Payments for Hospital Outpatient and Physicians for MIS SIJ Fusion Surgery
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — SI-BONE, Inc., a medical device company that pioneered the use of the iFuse Implant…
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Financial
Dr. Aria Sabit pleads guilty to unnecessary spine surgery, faces 11+ years in prison — 5 things to know
By Laura Dyrda Aria Sabit, MD, a neurosurgeon formerly practicing in Michigan, pled guilty to performing unnecessary spine surgery and…
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Financial
After Surgery, Surprise $117,000 Medical Bill From Doctor He Didn’t Know
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL Before his three-hour neck surgery for herniated disks in December, Peter Drier, 37, signed a pile of…
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Hospitals
OIG Study on “Questionable Billing” Regarding Clinical Laboratory Services
Complete Report Download the complete report Adobe® Acrobat® is required to read PDF files. Summary WHY WE DID THIS STUDY Medicare is the largest…
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Financial
Medicare billing outliers often have disciplinary problems, too
June 20, 2014 by MassDevice As news organizations analyze data on Medicare payments, doctors with disciplinary records keep popping up(James Mutter/Flickr) by…
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Spine
CEO charged with overbilling for spinal implants
Prosecutors say a San Francisco-based firm drastically overbilled taxpayers for government employee spinal implants. Santa Clara County prosecutors filed fraud…
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Disgraced orthopedic surgeon kills self at grave of mom rather than head to jail
A crooked Brooklyn doctor about to report to a federal lockup stopped first at his parents’ gravesite, pulled out a…
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