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Hospice Medical Directors Under The Fraud Microscope

Published on Fri Mar 03, 2017

Physicians must call the shots, case stresses. Get ready to defend your hospice medical director relationships, thanks to a Texas case alleging serious fraud and abuse related to physicians. The feds have indicted 16 people on fraud charges in a case involving hospice Novus Health Services in Frisco, Texas (see story, p. 68). And five of those people are physicians [...]
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