Download or read book Medical Billing Horror Stories written by Sharon Hollander and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anecdotes and real case studies ripped from the headlines about what doctors did which got them into trouble either with Medicare, HIPAA, The Office of Inspector General (OIG) or worse the FBI. The case studies are true stories of medical professionals: Some are about providers just like you trying to navigate the complex maze of the medical billing process. This guide will help you recognize the red flags and triggers so you can avoid a Medicare Audit. Learn about common problems that plague medical practices. Discover what your peers have done right and what they have done wrong. Avoid the costly billing mistakes and practice mismanagement showcased in Medical Billing Horror Stories. With the changes, challenges and uncertainties facing the Healthcare industry you cant afford to miss this information. If you submit even one claim for reimbursement this is a must read!
Download or read book The Medical Bill Survival Guide written by Pat Palmer and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide explains how readers can protect themselves from medical overcharges, duplicate charges, hidden charges, and mischarges from hospitals, HMOs, physical therapists, labs, and doctor's offices. Readers are primed on the techniques of negotiation with insurance companies.
Download or read book Healthcare Under Duress written by Swannee Rivers and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an emotional story that details one woman's struggle within a medical organization that was filled with massive illegal billing, her faith shines through. Healthcare Under Duress:An Inside look at the University of Washington Billing Scandal presents one woman's personal account and experience within a prestigious University Hospital (UWP). This case is unique, representing the issuance of the largest fine ever given to a medical teaching institution within the United States for billing fraud. For years, Swannee Rivers maintained hope of one day seeing justice served. In 2000 the FBI arrived, giving her that opportunity.
Download or read book The Great American Healthcare Billing Scam written by Rudi Bester and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written as a "how-to" manual for managing unexpected, huge healthcare bills, for our shrinking middle class. Many of our friends, family, and people who think they are adequately insured, often find themselves to be suddenly under-insured, or even uninsured. I wrote it for those of us who might be financially crushed by receiving surprisingly huge medical bills... like the bills I received for nearly $160,000 after a two-week period of unexpected illness, treatments received, and my hospitalization for a few nights. Sharing personal experiences, I will walk you though the ins-and-outs of the Great American Healthcare Billing Scam, how to understand your medical bills, where to find help, and how to negotiate a settlement. If I were to help just one person avoid bankruptcy, it would have been worth my time and effort to write this book! And if, because of this book, even a few people manage to successfully negotiate exorbitant medical bills - and get these adjusted or discounted to amounts deemed more affordable - that would also be a suitable reward. And finally, I did not write this book for any financial reward. As I have done with my previous written works, I order author's copies in bulk, at a discounted price. I pay for these books with my own money i.e., out-of-pocket. At our family's charitable gift shop in Lake Worth Beach Florida, I offer my books "for sale" to people in exchange for a donation. Whatever amount they can afford as a donation, determines the price. The proceeds - all 100% of it - is donated to Memory Trees Corporation, our family's registered public charity. Your can learn more about our "No Poverty" projects at www.memorytrees.co.
Download or read book Trillion Dollar Scam written by Saul William Seidman and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fraud is the result of government and insurance company control of health care. The growth of bureaucracy is a precursor to incompetence and soaring costs of medical care. A lack of clinical diagnosis and a dependence on expensive testing has increased costs while decreasing the doctor's competence. The FBI and the attorneys general of all states are dealing with exploding health care fraud. The result is a trillion dollars in waste and deception. Trillion Dollar Scam details the origin of this fraud and waste, and offers solutions to fixing the broken U.S. health care system.
Download or read book Scary Medical Stories written by Marie Noble and published by Townsend Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Be on the Lookout for Medical Billing from Home Scams written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wall of Silence written by Rosemary Gibson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical mistakes occur with alarming frequency in this country. Nightly newscasts and daily newspapers tell of botched surgeries, mistaken patient identities, careless overdoses, and neglected diagnoses. You may have dismissed these stories as unfortunate mistakes, misunderstandings, or just isolated incidents with the occasional bad doctor. Wall of Silence reveals that these medical mistakes are not rare incidents with the occasional bad doctor. In fact, the real-life stories in this book show that medical mistakes are increasing in frequency—and worse, that the system is designed more to cover up these errors than prevent them.
Download or read book Phantom Billing Fake Prescriptions and the High Cost of Medicine written by Terry L. Leap and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. health care is a $2.5 trillion system that accounts for more than 17 percent of the nation’s GDP. It is also highly susceptible to fraud. Estimates vary, but some observers believe that as much as 10 percent of all medical billing involves some type of fraud. In 2009, New York’s Medicaid fraud office recovered $283 million and obtained 148 criminal convictions. In July 2010, the U.S. Justice Department charged nearly 100 patients, doctors, and health care executives in five states of bilking the Medicare system out of more than $251 million through false claims for services that were medically unnecessary or never provided. These cases only hint at the scope of the problem. In Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine, Terry L. Leap takes on medical fraud and its economic, psychological, and social costs. Illustrated throughout with dozens of specific and often fascinating cases, this book covers a wide variety of crimes: kickbacks, illicit referrals, overcharging and double billing, upcoding, unbundling, rent-a-patient and pill-mill schemes, insurance scams, short-pilling, off-label marketing of pharmaceuticals, and rebate fraud, as well as criminal acts that enable this fraud (mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering). After assessing the effectiveness of the federal laws designed to fight health care fraud and abuse—the antikickback statute, the Stark Law, the False Claims Act, HIPAA, and the food and drug laws—Leap suggests a number of ways that health care providers, consumers, insurers, and federal and state officials can bring health care fraud and abuse under control, thereby reducing the overall cost of medical care in America.
Download or read book How to Refuse Your Hospital Bill written by Frank H Lobb and published by Kimkris Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know that when a health insurer fails to pay for the care your doctor says you need, the hospital must provide it free? FREE as in the hospital can't bill you. Consequently the book provides a tutorial on how to shove a bill back in a hospital's lap. As the director of a major healthcare facility states "The book is exactly what's needed.
Download or read book America s Dumbest Doctors written by K. Patrick McDonald and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Healthcare Reform? Now that's a complex subject. But here's an idea: Why don't we just start by weeding out the lunatics? The Florida doctor who conspired with his brothers to chop off a finger with an axe, so they could collect a nifty insurance pay-off . . . The New York physician who accidently blew himself up, demolishing an entire building, to spite his divorcing wife . . . The Arizona MD who - while facing 67-counts of sexually abusing his patients - announced in court, "Okay. So I'm not exactly Dr. Marcus Welby." The East Coast doctor who stole a cadaver's hand in order to impress a topless dancer . . . Oh, we're just getting started. There are 100,000 more you might want to keep an eye on. ________________________________ "Author McDonald breaks ranks and names names. I sincerely wish I could report that these are merely a few far-out nutcases. I honestly cannot say that. And this fact alone makes his work, regrettably, important." J. William Hollingsworth, MD (Retired) Former Chief of Medicine, San Diego VA Medical Center "Disturbing, provocative and uncomfortably funny." Lesley Miller, MD, (former "surgeon to the stars") USC Medical Center, L.A. __________________________________ Patrick McDonald is a graduate of UCSD School of Medicine, La Jolla, original EMS program. He was appointed the first EMS supervisor for the city of San Diego under Mayor (and then governor) Pete Wilson's administration; was a coauthor of the National Waterpark Lifeguard Training Manual; a set medic on such movies as Planet of the Apes; has provided medical services for entertainers such as Engelbert Humperdinck and the Commodores. For three decades this author and guest speaker has collected thousands of outlandish physician stories. He writes, "I waited 25 years for someone else to do this. The fact is, no profession in America spawns more outright lunacy. And we thought you might like to know a little more about it." _________________________________ For more on the fascinating subject of doctor shenanigans, come visit our website, where you will learn all about your own "Dumb Doctor" story, money-making opportunities. We are gathering nutty cases for the next book, due out in the Spring, 2010. Why not join the fun? www.medicalmaniacs.com
Download or read book What Your Doctor Wants You to Know to Crush Medical Debt written by Virgie Bright Ellington and published by Virgie Bright Ellington. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protect yourself against America's number one cause of bankruptcy! Medical bills can bury you in debt for the rest of your life, but it doesn't have to be that way. Crush Medical Debt provides the tools you need to get the healthcare you need, avoid bills you shouldn't pay, and save yourself from becoming a victim of a predatory healthcare system. You'll uncover: How to get rid of medical debt in three simple steps without going bankrupt. Definitions to catch common bill mistakes. Steps to fix mistakes in your bills or coverage. What to do when your insurance won't cover medical costs. Tips to negotiate a lower bill and set up an affordable payment plan. Fight back against predatory billing practices and take care of your financial and physical health! Get the secrets in Crush Medical Debt to free yourself from a lifetime of bills and save your financial life.
Download or read book Health Justice Now written by Timothy Faust and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best concise explanation of why the United States needs single-payer health care — and needs to widen the definition of health care itself."— The Washington Post Single payer healthcare is not complicated: the government pays for all care for all people. It’s cheaper than our current model, and most Americans (and their doctors) already want it. So what’s the deal with our current healthcare system, and why don’t we have something better? In Health Justice Now, Timothy Faust explains what single payer is, why we don’t yet have it, and how it can be won. He identifies the actors that have misled us for profit and political gain, dispels the myth that healthcare needs to be personally expensive, shows how we can smoothly transition to a new model, and reveals the slate of humane and progressive reforms that we can only achieve with single payer as the springboard. In this impassioned playbook, Faust inspires us to believe in a world where we could leave our job without losing healthcare for ourselves and our kids; where affordable housing is healthcare; and where social justice links arm-in-arm with health justice for us all.
Download or read book It s Okay If You Don t Like Horse Racing It s Kind Of A Smart People Thing Anyway written by Awsoo Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Horse Racing Medical Health Journal notebook / Journal makes an excellent gift for any occasion . Lined - Size: 6'' x 9'' - Notebook - Journal - Planner - Dairy - 107 Pages
Download or read book Get What s Yours for Health Care written by Philip Moeller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when healthcare and medical insurance are more important than ever comes this authoritative, unbiased new volume in the acclaimed Get What’s Yours series. Healthcare expert Philip Moeller has written a reliable, concise guide to healthcare and health insurance basics. He provides tools that patients need before, during, and after they get medical care. He describes the care we need, the care we don’t, and how to deal with doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers. Moeller explains telemedicine and healthcare apps that have become so important during the coronavirus epidemic. The book shares the stories of disruptive health innovators who have given us access to true health costs, cheaper prescription drugs, and low-cost care in and outside the US. You will learn how to avoid poor care, fight back against denied insurance claims and inflated bills, and use social media to connect with powerful advocates. Throughout, Get What’s Yours for Healthcare draws on stories of people who share their lessons on how to successfully navigate the healthcare system. This invaluable guide helps people get access to the care they need at a price they can afford. It’s the book we all need now.
Download or read book The Price We Pay written by Marty Makary and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller Business Book of the Year--Association of Business Journalists From the New York Times bestselling author comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system--and the people who are saving it--now with a new Afterword by the author. "A must-read for every American." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBES One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research, and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of the business of medicine and its elusive money games in need of a serious shake-up. Dr. Makary shows how so much of health care spending goes to things that have nothing to do with health and what you can do about it. Dr. Makary challenges the medical establishment to remember medicine's noble heritage of caring for people when they are vulnerable. The Price We Pay offers a road map for everyday Americans and business leaders to get a better deal on their health care, and profiles the disruptors who are innovating medical care. The movement to restore medicine to its mission, Makary argues, is alive and well--a mission that can rebuild the public trust and save our country from the crushing cost of health care.
Download or read book Building a Unified American Health Care System written by Gilead I Lancaster and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blueprint for comprehensive, science-based health care system reform. Financial and political pressures on our health care system have negatively impacted individual care and the health system as a whole, an issue that has only become more acute because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Building a Unified American Health Care System, Gilead I Lancaster, MD, lays out a blueprint for comprehensive health care reform, proposing a unified system run by health care professionals—not politicians or commercial health insurance companies—that offers universal coverage and access. Lancaster compares the current arguments for single payer versus commercial health insurance systems with arguments in the early 1900s for a central bank versus regional commercial banks. He then introduces a novel solution: the establishment of a National Medical Board similar to the Federal Reserve System that helped fix the American banking system over a century ago. Along with other innovations, a plan co-created by Lancaster dubbed EMBRACE (Expanding Medical and Behavioral Resources with Access to Care for Everyone) would involve creating a modern, evidence-based health care system, one offering universal coverage for basic needs while allowing for commercial insurance participation. Emphasizing the importance of separating health care from governmental and commercial pressures and incentives, Lancaster explains the need for comprehensive—rather than incremental—reform of the American health care system.
