Dr. Jacques Roy certified more patients for Medicare home health eligibility than any other physician’s clinic in the country. Most of them received no services though millions of dollars in claims were generated, and paid, in their names. By the time Roy’s fraudulent operation was exposed and he was indicted this week, 78 home health care companies had their Medicare billing privileges suspended and 500 others were named as participants in the scheme.
Hidden among the hundreds of radiology software, computer cart and Meaningful Use solution displays, we discovered quite a collection of important news relevant to home health and hospice. In future issues, we will expand on this week’s brief summaries about Honeywell HomMed, Philips, Independa, LG Electronics, Jardogs, HealthWyse, Intermec, Reflection Solutions, Arcadian Telehealth Monitoring, OtterBox and Sprint.
In one of the week’s best-attended lectures, the CIO and Technical Services Manager from Sutter VNA and Hospice shared real-world insights they gained after rolling out a point-of-care software application on mobile devices.
The best way to drink from the fire hose that is the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2012 meeting is to search for the few home care and hospice lectures and exhibitors and offer readers a quick, easy-to-read briefing, Peruse our lead article for the topic headings and company names in bold that […]
Colorado home care providers are celebrating this week over nine dollars and forty-five cents. Beginning February 1, agencies may bill Medicaid for providing home telehealth care. Read here how they got there after more than six years of hard work and about the new law’s specific conditions.
