HealthLeaders Media July 21, 2022
The characteristics are part of a Special Fraud Alert issued by the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of the Inspector General, and give healthcare organizations an idea of what to look out for in dealing with telehealth companies.
Federal officials have issued a Special Fraud Alert targeting contracts with telehealth companies and offered seven characteristics of an arrangement that could be illegal.
The notice, issued by the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of the Inspector General, follows several recent investigations into companies claiming to offer what they define as telehealth services, but which often constitute illegal marketing schemes.
“While the facts and circumstances of each case differed, often they involved at least one practitioner ordering or prescribing items...
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