Dermatology Providers Agree to Pay

Forefront Dermatology S.C. and Henghold Surgery Center LLC have agreed to pay almost $850,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly causing the submission of falsely coded claims to Medicare for wound repair procedures. The United States alleged that Henghold Dermatology and Henghold Surgery Center used inaccurate wound repair billing codes for which Medicare paid more money than it would have paid for the wound repairs that were actually performed – a practice known as “upcoding.” Read a Department of Justice press release.

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