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		<title>Texas Physicians Get New Option For Resolving Some Medical Board Complaint</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new non-disciplinary "Remedial Plan" option enacted by the Texas Legislature last session may allow some Texas physicians to resolve charges of professional misconduct pending before the Texas Medical Board without the National Practitioner Data Bank report that normally results when a physician is formally disciplined by the Texas Medical Board. 

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		<title>Broad-Reaching Prosecution Of Individuals Participating In Operations Of Companies Convicted Of Fraud Shows Risks Of Participation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health care owners and employees at all levels should heed the lesson shown from the continuing successful prosecution by the Justice Department against individuals ranging from owners to marketing employees for their participation in a Medicare fraud scheme allegedly orchestrated by the owners and operators of American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC); its management company, Medlink Professional Management Group Inc.; and the American Sleep Institute (ASI).  The mounting guilty pleas and convictions obtained from individuals who participated in the execution of the scheme since the Justice Department secured guilty please from ATC, ASI and their owners shows that individuals electing to participate in aggressive Medicare referral or billing practices by their health care companies or other business partners stand a high risk of criminal prosecution if their organizations get caught engaging in health care fraud.  The successful prosecutions shows the readiness of the Justice Department to prosecute individuals at all levels of organizations for their participation in health care fraud activities even after obtaining criminal convictions against the corporations and principles who were the primary actors in the scheme.

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		<title>Hospitals Can Expect CMS To Add Hospital Incident Reporting To Surveys In Response To OIG Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Marcotte Stamer</dc:creator>
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		<title>North Texas Medical Supply Company Owner Indicted For Health Care Fraud Now Also Charged With Immigration Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Plano, Texas man already indicted for health care fraud now also faces federal immigration fraud related changes.  Justice Department officials announced the additional charges against Okey F. Nwagbara, (Nwagbara) on December 20, 2011.  Although Nwagbara's alleged actions reflect potential criminal misconduct in many areas, health care providers should keep in mind that the health care fraud task force participants are targeting health care fraud of all types, including those my health care providers not engaged in other types of criminal misconduct.  As a result, all health care providers should tighten their health care billing and other practices to defend against possible scruitiny as part of the federal or state government's widening fraud audit and investigation efforts.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slphealthcareupdate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7106361&amp;post=1056&amp;subd=slphealthcareupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DOL Proposes Tighter Overtime, Minimum Wage Rules For Home Care Workers, Continues Scrutiny Of Health Care Employers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) plans to propose new rules that would provide minimum wage and overtime protections for nearly two million workers who provide in-home care services for the elderly and infirm.  WHD's focus on home health workers is an extension of its expanded regulation and enforcement efforts targeting a broad range of health care industry employers.

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		<title>DFW Hospital Council Foundation Among 26 Organizations Selected To Lead Quality Effort</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation, the Texas Center for Quality &#38; Patient Safety Hospitals and Lifepoint Hospitals, Inc. are three of the 26 state, regional, national, or hospital system organizations selected as Hospital Engagement Networks by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). 

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		<title>Former Houston Texas Physician Gets 70 Month Prison Sentence For Fraud Conviction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Federal court on November 14, 2011 sentenced Armando Chavez, 42, a former physician and owner of the Chavez Medical Group in East Houston to 60 months for the conspiracy charge and to 70 months for each of the three mail fraud charges. In addition to the prison sentences, which will run concurrently, Chavez was also ordered to pay $3,821,082 in restitution.

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		<title>Euless Healthcare Corporation Owner, Associates Face Conspiracy And Health Care Fraud Charges For Alleged Submission Of $700,000+ In Fraudulent Health Care Claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Marcotte Stamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three defendants indicted for engaging in various Federal health care fraud offenses related to their involvement in the operation of a North Texas based health care company, Euless Healthcare Corporation, were arrested on November 17, 2011.  The charges highlight the health care fraud risks that health care providers, their owners and leaders face for engaging in activities [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slphealthcareupdate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7106361&amp;post=1034&amp;subd=slphealthcareupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Former Manager 9th Employee Sentenced For Involvement In Maxim Medicare False Claims Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sentencing of another former Maxim Healthcare Services, Inc. (“Maxim”)  employee last week highlights the risks that health care management employees and consultants face when they participate in activities leading to false billing of Medicare or other federal programs by their employer health care provider organizations.

In his sentencing, Shipman became the eighth former Maximum employee sentenced for helping Maxim submit false charges to Medicare for health care services for services provided through an unlicensed facility.  Maxim coughed up Shipman and other workers who helped to orchestrate and administer the billing scheme as part of a plea agreement reached with the Justice Department in September.

On November 21, 2011, a Federal judge sentenced former Maxim senior manager Brian Lee Shipman to five months in prison and five months of home confinement with electronic monitoring for his involvement in the unlicensed operation of Maxim office that billed nearly a million dollars to government health care programs.  In addition to the prison term, Judge Thompson sentenced Shipman to two years of supervised release and ordered him to pay a $10,000 fine. 

On Sept. 12, 2011, Maxim – one of the nation’s leading providers of home healthcare services – entered into a settlement agreement to resolve criminal and civil 
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		<title>Medical Identity Theft/Fraud Convictions Highlight Need For Health Care Providers To Safeguard Health Information, Guard Against Fraud Schemes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Convictions Highlight Health Care Data Bases Attractive, Vulnerable Target For Medicare Fraud Schemers

A Federal judge sentenced 25 year old Miami resident Yenky Sanchez, 25 to serve more than 5 years in Federal prison for his role in the theft of Medicare numbers and other information of elderly and disabled Florida residents as part of a plan to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and other federal programs.  Coming on the heels of a November 3 conviction in West Virginia of Sargis Tadevosyan in a separate identity theft for Medicare fraud scheme, the convictions highlight the growing commitment and effectiveness of Federal and state investigators in investigating and prosecuting individuals who seek to use identity theft schemes to defraud Medicare or other federal programs.

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		<title>Detroit-Area Foot Doctor Pleads Guilty to Medicare Fraud Scheme</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rising emphasis of DOJ, HHS and other federal and state officials on health care fraud detection and enforcement requires that health care providers tighten their billing, medical record keeping, training and other compliance efforts to guard against false claims and other health care fraud charges.

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		<title>Merck To Pay $950 Million To Settle Vioxx® Off-Label Marketing Charges</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Marcotte Stamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American pharmaceutical company Merck, Sharp &#38; Dohme (Merck) will pay $950 million to resolve criminal charges and civil claims related to its promotion and marketing of the painkiller Vioxx® (rofecoxib).   Merck previously withdrew Vioxx® from the market. According to a November 23, 2011 joint announcement of the U.S. Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Health &#38; Human [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slphealthcareupdate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7106361&amp;post=1011&amp;subd=slphealthcareupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Medical Board Suspends Child Psychiatrist For Sexual Misconduct</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Marcotte Stamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 22, 2011, a disciplinary panel of the Texas Medical Board temporarily suspended, without notice, the medical license of Charles Henry Fischer, M.D., after determining that Dr. Fischer, a child psychiatrist at the Austin State Hospital in Austin, has demonstrated a pattern of sexually abusing teenage boys in his care for inpatient psychiatric treatment over a period of nearly 20 years. The discipline highlights again that personal misconduct remains a key reason for discipline of medical professionals.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slphealthcareupdate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7106361&amp;post=1009&amp;subd=slphealthcareupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>100,000+ Primary Care Providers Signed Up To Get EHRs Regional Extension Centers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Marcotte Stamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The HHS Office for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology announced today that nearly one-third of all primary care providers -plan to work with their Regional Extension Center (REC) to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs as a way to transition from paper records to certified EHRs.  Designed to jump [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slphealthcareupdate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7106361&amp;post=1005&amp;subd=slphealthcareupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>11/16 NTHCPA Meeting Explores “Equal Visitation:  Medicare &amp; Joint Commission Requirements, Pitfalls &amp; Practicalities”11/16 NTHCPA Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stay In Touch.  Check Out Our New Newsletter, the NTHCPA News, here NORTH TEXAS HEALTHCARE COMPLIANCE PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION Invites Members and Guests to Our Next Study Group &#38; Complimentary Luncheon “Equal Visitation:  Medicare &#38; Joint Commission Requirements, Pitfalls &#38; Practicalities” Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Dallas Ft Worth Hospital Council 250 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slphealthcareupdate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7106361&amp;post=1003&amp;subd=slphealthcareupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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