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If an Auditor Knocks, Don’t Doctor Your Medical Records

Dec 15, 2011

Learn from the experience of these two physical therapists in Pocatello.  They were audited by a Medicare "program integrity contractor" and asked to produce random patient records.  They made some "additional comments" to those records and got nailed and convicted of felonies for altering records in a Federal investigation. 

Click on the link below to read the complete press release from the Department of Justice.

http://www.justice.gov/usao/id/news/2011/dec/pocatellophysicaltherapy12122011.html

 

 

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