Morning Headlines 1/6/25
Telehealth Company Pays $386,000 to Resolve Allegations of Overbilling for Medicare Telehealth Time
Meditelecare will pay $386,000 to settle federal allegations that it knowingly overbilled Medicare for virtual psychotherapy sessions that didn’t meet minimum time requirements using falsified time records.
Veradigm interim CFO gets another term extension
Veradigm extends the six-month contract of interim CFO Leland Westerfield for the second time after having fired its CEO and CFO in December 2023 for failing to comply with financial reporting.
Black Book reports its top EHRs for specialty practices for 2025, also naming as top innovation leaders ModMed, NextGen Healthcare, Netsmart, ClinicMind, Epic, and RXNT.
The $50 billion Rural Health payout is welcome. In context, it's less than the total cost of the F22 raptor…