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New Orleans Hospice Owner Indicted For Bogus GIP, Doc Charges

Published on Fri Aug 27, 2021

The owner of a New Orleans hospice has been indicted on Medicare fraud. Canon Healthcare owner Shiva Akula instructed employees to bill for unnecessary General Inpatient services and to bill for evaluation and management CPT® Codes 99233 and 99236, the Department of Justice says in a release. “These physician services reflected in CPT® Codes 99236 and 99233 should not have been [...]
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