Telemedicine services are facing enhanced scrutiny from government enforcement agencies as questions multiply over fraud, waste, and abuse vulnerabilities.
Complex Medicare billing requirements for telemedicine services are creating confusion among doctors and leading to billing mistakes and undeserved reimbursement payments.
Telemedicine spending is expected to continue to grow, making it a potential target for fraud schemes and increasing the risk of improper Medicare spending.
Government enforcement entities are often suspicious of new technology because they worry that health-care providers could be coming up with new ways to game the system, Jeremy Sherer, a health-care attorney with Hooper, Lundy & ...
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