06/18/2010

Parkland Found to Be Over-Billing Medicare

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When it rains, it pours....

UT Southwestern and Parkland Hospital Stories: UT Southwestern and Parkland: Another Billing Problem Found
According to the OIG the reason the reason for the failure was, "These over-payments occurred because Parkland did not have procedures in place to ensure that units of drugs billed corresponded to units of drugs administered."


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Jun 18, 2010 7:54:12 AM | Ethics, UT Southwestern

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