Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert
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Beware: Even if you don’t self-disclose your employment of a staffer excluded from Medicare, you could still get in big trouble for it.
For example: Rayburn Health Care & Rehabilitation, a nursing and rehab center located in Jasper, Texas, has agreed to pay $110,712.60 for employing an individual who was excluded from participating in any Federal health care programs, the OIG says on its website.
“When the excluded individual applied to be reinstated into Federal health care programs, she reported on her application that she was employed by RHCR as a nurse for two years during her exclusion,” the OIG says. “During her employment tenure, she allegedly provided items or services reimbursed by Federal health care programs, which is prohibited for excluded individuals.”
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