Is Ingenix’s Purchase of EHR a Conflict of Interest?
Ingenix, a mega health information technology and services company recently acquired Executive Health Resources, a provider of medical necessity compliance and physician medical management solutions for hospitals. The transaction, valued at about $1.5 Billion, is subject to regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions and…
Health Care Reform Nightmares
Donald Berwick appointment as head of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) coupled with the passage of ObamaCare set off alarms that death panels would be coming soon. Berwick proclamation of love for the British socialized healthcare system stoked these concerns. He also…
Medical Necessity Audits Coming Soon
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) New Issue Review Board has recently approved the first “medical necessity review” audits for Medicare’s permanent Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program, allowing contractors to begin posting items of interest to their respective websites. This had been put…
Missouri Proposition C – The Health Care Freedom Act – Big win for our Liberty
Missouri, like many states, are not happy with the Obama’s so called Health Reform for a number of reasons. Missouri is the first state to act in a meaningful way. Missouri Proposition C gave voters the opportunity to approve a bill that would, “deny the…
Yomi Faparusi Published in “Compliance Today”
Yomi Faparusi, Sr., MD, JD, PhD, Intersect Healthcare’s Director of Medical Review & Research was recently published in the Heath Care Compliance Association’s (HCAA) magazine “Compliance Today”. Dr. Faparusi’s article “Preventive medicine: Root cause analysis and the RAC audit process” appeared in the August 2010 edition of…