{"id":952072,"date":"2021-01-12T15:14:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T21:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=952072"},"modified":"2021-01-17T21:13:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T03:13:28","slug":"texas-company-agrees-to-reimburse-medicare-for-improper-billing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=952072","title":{"rendered":"Longview clinic to reimburse medicare after submitting improper claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-952108\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/01\/Spinal-Decompression-Clinic-of-East-Texas-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>LONGVIEW &#8212; The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, Stephen J. Cox announced that Spinal Decompression Clinic of Texas has agreed to pay $330,898.00 to resolve liability under the False Claims Act for the alleged improper billing of electro-acupuncture device neurostimulators. According to the press brief SDCT billed Medicare for the implantation of 41 neurostimulators, a surgical procedure, which usually requires an operating room and is reimbursed by federal health care programs. SDCT, however, did not perform those surgeries, instead applied P-Stim devices in an office setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, Stephen J. Cox announced that Spinal Decompression Clinic of Texas has agreed to pay $330,898.00 to resolve liability under the False Claims Act for the alleged improper billing of electro-acupuncture device neurostimulators. According to the press brief SDCT billed Medicare for the implantation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=952072\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview clinic to reimburse medicare after submitting improper claims<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":952432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/01\/Spinal-Decompression-Clinic-of-East-Texas-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Texas company agrees to reimburse medicare for improper billing","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 08:11:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/01\/Spinal-Decompression-Clinic-of-East-Texas-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Texas company agrees to reimburse medicare for improper billing","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=952072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952431,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952072\/revisions\/952431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/952432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=952072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=952072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}