The NY Times, in conjunction with the Texas Tribune, has published an article on the recent $3.75 million settlement between Carousel Pediatrics and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission Office of the Inspector General and its affect on the health care community in Texas.
A major legal settlement with a children’s health provider in hand, a Texas agency investigating health care fraud says its ramped-up efforts to rein in faulty Medicaid charges have started to pay off.
But for health providers who treat the state’s poorest patients, the settlement, with Carousel Pediatrics, has raised questions about how the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s Office of Inspector General distinguishes fraud from human error…
Settlement in Medicaid Fraud Case Worries Health Providers – NYTimes.com.