Billing

2022 - 6 - 13

Arizona Resident Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud in a False Billing ... (Department of Justice)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. —Glen Michael Martinka, 72, of Phoenix, Arizona, pleaded guilty today to mail fraud, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

According to court documents, beginning no later than Nov. 1, 2009, and continuing through approximately April 2012, Martinka, in his role as part owner and manager of a brokerage firm known as TSG Empire Roadrunner LLC, knowingly engaged in a false billing scheme to defraud a food company whose products the brokerage firm sold to various retailers and distributors. The actual sentence, however, will be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables. Martinka faces a maximum statutory penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 or twice the gain or loss, and a three-year term of supervised release.

Portland laments issues with water billing (Evening Observer)

PORTLAND — Town Supervisor Rich Lewis again addressed concerns over Chadwick Bay Intermunicipal Waterworks and its involvement with both Portland and the ...

At that point, we may want to call another joint meeting between the Town and the Village of Brocton to see what our options are and go from there.” The village and town have been frustrated with the agency for quite some time. “We have another meeting coming up in July,” he said.

Ending indirect billing for PAs, NPs would have saved Medicare ... (Becker's Hospital Review)

Eliminating indirect billing for nurse practitioners and physician assistants would have saved Medicare about $194 million in 2018, according to a study ...

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Eliminating Indirect Billing for NPs, PAs Could Save Medicare $194M (RevCycleIntelligence.com)

If healthcare practices eliminated indirect billing for nurse practitioner and physician assistant visits, it would have saved Medicare $194 million in 2018 ...

Nearly 70 percent of the healthcare practices in the study were indirect billing practices, meaning that more than 80 percent of their NP and PA visits were billed indirectly. “Further, it may result in improved practice efficiency, as practices would no longer have to ensure that they were meeting the regulatory requirements of indirect billing.” For example, the percentage of NP visits billed indirectly fell from 50.9 percent in 2010 to 35.6 percent in 2018. Spending on visits that were billed indirectly increased, going from $513 million in 2010 to $1,291 million in 2018. Similarly, the number of PA visits, billed directly and indirectly, increased from 4.5 million to 10.6 million. In these cases, Medicare and private payers pay the practice the total cost of what they would pay a physician for the same service.

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Wilton Board discusses solar net energy billing (Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel)

Town Manager Rhonda Irish also announced there will be a cookout held before the June 20 Town Meeting.

The board chose not to act on the proposed amendment. This brings the cost of the engineering fees to $691,000. At the March meeting, Lord estimated the project to cost $9 million dollars. “I think they’re worth doing, but you want to make sure if there’s a way out if the proposed solar farm doesn’t end up being built,” Select Board Chair David Leavitt said. She likened the program to purchasing a $100 gift card for $85. ReVision’s offer to the Town of Wilton would be similar, a 20-year agreement for the town to receive a 15.5% credit off of the Maine Public Energy Commission’s standard-offer rate for Central Maine Power. That rate was set at $0.12 for kilowatts per hour for 2022.

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