Medicaid compliance differs from Medicare compliance in 3 key ways.
Given that both the feds and the states are ramping up their efforts in the area of Medicaid fraud enforcement, it’s time for your practice…
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January 12th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
In rural areas like ours, access to care for Medicaid patients is seriously threatened by these kinds of measures. The instability of insurers who actually manage Medicaid programs makes looking at going non-par really attractive. The really disgusting part is that nearly all of this overkill in regulation is because of greed and lack of integrity by a minority – a growing minority it seems – of suppliers. Naturally the feds and the states respond by carpet-bombing the industry. That takes out not only the bad guys, but also a lot of the good guys and – worst of all – a lot of the people who could be served were it not for the dishonesty of some and the overreaction of government.