Recently, the OIG reached settlements with eight physicians involved in the submission of false claims to Medicare by physician medicine companies. Those physicians had reassigned their Medicare payments to various physical medicine companies in exchange for positions as medical directors.
While serving in these roles, the physicians did not directly supervise any services, but those companies claimed the physicians performed services and billed for such. The physicians failed to monitor the services billed using their provider numbers.
The OIG is now reminding physicians that they have the right to access entities’ billing information concerning services the physician is alleged to have performed and for which the entity is billing Medicare.
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