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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Hospitals Now On Radar Screen
The Obama administration has sent letters to hospital trade associations. It warns their members not to use electronic medical records to jack up Medicare payments. The letters came from Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Published reports have said some hospitals use online systems to overstate the severity of patient conditions so they get higher payments. Hospitals say Medicare lags in updating its computerized coding system.
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The problem with Obama is that there are never adequate consequences.Never ever a follow up report indicating what action was taken when non compliance was at hand.I could threaten someone all day.If I did not act upon that threat I would be laughed at or ignored.Most of his concerns are legit,but his action hollow.
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