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28 Oct 2009, 10:31 am
Wisconsin Physician Services (WPS) issued guidance yesterday clarifying the importance of physician signatures on dictated notes, which emerged as a national issue identified by the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing Program (CERT). [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 6:40 am
Wisconsin Physician Services (WPS)--the Part B Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) for Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska and the Legacy Medicare Carrier for Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota--regularly conducts Service-Specific Probes (Probes) "to validate potential systematic problems with billing, utilization, and or/documentation of a specific service. [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 7:05 am
WPS, the Legacy Part B Medicare Administrative Contractor for Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, has issued recent guidance regarding documentation of discard or waste for drugs and biologicals as well as missing information on the Medicare CMS-855 provider enrollment applications. [read post]
15 Jun 2010, 11:19 am by The Health Law Partners
Attention physicians, according to the WPS website, they are conducting a widespread Service-Specific Prepayment Probe on CPT code 99213, using samples obtained from Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota for all specialties. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 11:04 am by WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
Under the terms of a stipulation in a previous disciplinary proceeding conducted by the Wisconsin Medical Examining Board (MEB), Wetzler submitted to an evaluation of his professional competency by the Physician Assessment Service [...] [read post]
19 Apr 2021, 7:25 am by Geoff Cockrell
WindRose Health Investors has announced it has completed an equity recapitalization of Bluestone Physician Services. [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 8:41 am
Last week, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Division of Quality Assurance (DQA) released a memorandum repealing the statewide variance that allowed for authentication of verbal and telephone orders in hospitals within 48 hours. [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 8:41 am
Last week, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Division of Quality Assurance (DQA) released a memorandum repealing the statewide variance that allowed for authentication of verbal and telephone orders in hospitals within 48 hours. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 2:53 pm
Wisconsin Physician Services ("WPS"), the Medicare Part B Carrier for providers in Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin, recently conducted a service-specific probe review of Current Procedural Terminology ("CPT") 99233 billed by neurology providers. [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 3:55 pm by by PritzkerLaw
The presence of E. coli in Zillman Meat Market wild game is under investigation by the Marathon County Health Department, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 3:55 pm by by PritzkerLaw
The presence of E. coli in Zillman Meat Market wild game is under investigation by the Marathon County Health Department, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. [read post]
29 Nov 2015, 11:21 am by Green and Associates
  The Wisconsin Medicaid Program pays for personal care services, which are medically orientated services intended to assist a recipient with activities of daily living necessary to maintain a recipient in his or her place of residence in the community. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 2:33 pm by The Health Law Partners
Wisconsin Physician Services (an existing Medicare Carrier and Medicare Administrative Contractor) issued a reminder today on its website for providers concerning the new deadlines for Medicare claims submission. [read post]
15 Jan 2010, 5:14 am by Ray Mullman
Visiting Physicians Association, which has provided home health services in Michigan, Ohio, Georgia and Wisconsin, will make the payments to the U.S. government and the state of Michigan, to settle the allegations that it submitted claims for unnecessary home visits, unnecessary tests and procedures and other services it never provided. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 9:37 am by Green and Associates
The allegations were that Forest violated the Anti-Kickback Statute, which prohibits the payment of remuneration to induce referrals of items or services covered by federal health care programs, by providing payments and meals to certain physicians in connection with speaker programs about Bystolic®, Savella®, or Namenda® between Jan. 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2011. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 9:37 am by Green and Associates
The allegations were that Forest violated the Anti-Kickback Statute, which prohibits the payment of remuneration to induce referrals of items or services covered by federal health care programs, by providing payments and meals to certain physicians in connection with speaker programs about Bystolic®, Savella®, or Namenda® between Jan. 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2011. [read post]
21 Oct 2009, 6:00 am
This week, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle announced an emergency rule (the “Rule”) interpreting and implementing Section 632.895 (12m) of the Wisconsin Statutes which mandates that insurers and self-insured health plans provide coverage for the treatment of autism spectrum disorders. [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 7:31 pm
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals released an opinion today (not to be published) upholding the Labor and Industry Review Commission (LIRC) and circuit court's decision finding that an employer, Advanced Transmission Service, LLC, (ATS), unreasonably refused to rehire an employee, Bradley Woodford, contrary to Wis. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 3:04 pm
With the onslaught of the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) provisions making it a false claim to retain known overpayments and the new CMS guidance on the newly-reinstated Voluntary Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol (SRDP), Wisconsin Physician Services (WPS)--the Medicare Part B Contractor for Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota--released its revised overpayment notification and voluntary refund forms. [read post]