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When the Payer Won’t Take It Back: What to Do with...

By: Christopher Parrella, Esq., CPC, CHC, CPCO Parrella Health Law, Boston, MA. A Health Care Provider Defense and Compliance Firm Let's say you discover an overpayment from a health plan, one that you didn't cause, didn't...

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Emergency Department E&M Billing in the Crosshairs: UCHealth’s $23M Settlement Signals...

By: Christopher Parrella, Esq., CPC, CHC, CPCO Parrella Health Law, Boston, MA. A Health Care Provider Defense and Compliance Firm Hospitals across the country should be paying close attention to this one. In what appears to...

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Medicare Still Doesn’t Cover Dental Care—But Advocates Aren’t Giving Up

By: Christopher Parrella, Esq., CPC, CHC, CPCO Parrella Health Law, Boston, MA. A Health Care Provider Defense and Compliance Firm A Health Care Provider Defense and Compliance Firm. It's hard to believe, but Medicare still...

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$202 Million Wake-Up Call: DOJ Nails Gilead for Speaker Program Kickbacks

By: Christopher Parrella, Esq., CPC, CHC, CPCO Parrella Health Law, Boston, MA. A Health Care Provider Defense and Compliance Firm The Department of Justice just delivered another thunderous warning to the pharmaceutical...

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HHS OCR’s Latest HIPAA Settlement Sends a Message: No Excuses for...

By: Christopher Parrella, Esq., CPC, CHC, CPCO Parrella Health Law, Boston, MA. A Health Care Provider Defense and Compliance Firm When it comes to HIPAA, intent doesn’t matter—execution does. In its latest enforcement...

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A $40 Million “Black and White” Medicare Fraud Ends in Massive...

By: Christopher Parrella, Esq., CPC, CHC, CPCO Parrella Health Law, Boston, MA. A Health Care Provider Defense and Compliance Firm Some fraud cases live in the gray. This one didn’t. Trivikram Reddy, a licensed nurse...

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