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Long Term Care & Senior Living Blog
June 25, 2015

ALERT - Clinical Labs under Scrutiny by OIG

As health care costs rise and providers are faced with challenges to meet the needs and demands of consumers; Medicare looks for questionable payments made to providers to ensure federal dollars for healthcare are spent for medically necessary services as it seeks to reduce fraud and abuse in the provision of health care. One such area is Clinical labs. As discussed below, these labs require prompt attention due to the significant increased scrutiny of their operations.