IPC Healthcare Inc. has entered into an alliance with naviHealth Inc., the companies announced Tuesday.
Practical advice on reducing antipsychotics
By
Jerome Wilborn
May 08, 2015
Two CMS tags —F-Tag 329, which addresses unnecessarily using antipsychotic drugs, and F-Tag 309, which addresses taking steps to reduce antipsychotic drug use — are used by nursing home surveyors to...
Pitts promoted at IPC Healthcare in Kansas City
May 04, 2015
Olevia Pitts, M.D., SFHM, was recently promoted to executive director for IPC Healthcare Inc.’s Kansas City region.
Court: Provider must face federal upcoding charges
By
John Hall
Feb 24, 2015
A federal judge has ruled that a hospitalist company with thousands of post-acute care customers must face federal charges that it overbilled the Medicare and Medicaid programs millions of dollars.
A very tangled web
By
John Hall
Oct 01, 2014
Medication management is as much art as science in a patient’s final days, and that can present multifaceted caregiving challenges for hospice providers
Hospitalist firm charged
By
John O'Connor
Aug 01, 2014
A hospitalist company that works with thousands of facilities is facing federal charges that its clinicians routinely overbilled Medicare and Medicaid, authorities recently announced.
Hospitalist company with long-term care presence faces federal charges of upcoding
By
Tim Mullaney
Jun 18, 2014
A hospitalist company that works with thousands of post-acute care facilities is officially facing federal charges that its clinicians routinely overbilled Medicare and Medicaid, authorities announced...