Medicare issue

[Guest guest]

A situation was presented to me while discussing professional issues

with a student today:

If an outpatient facility is discovered (visually and verbally

verified)to be utilizing PTA staff (without a PT present - PT is out

of town at a other clinic site) to see medicare patients, what is the

process to report this problem to the proper authorities?

Lane Blondheim, PT, MT

Active Health and Rehab

Montgomery, AL

[Guest guest]

here is the website to report this:

_http://www.medicare.gov/FraudAbuse/HowToReport.asp_

(http://www.medicare.gov/FraudAbuse/HowToReport.asp)

Bubba Klostermann OT, CVE, CEAS

CEO, WORK & REHAB

4546 South 14 th

Abilene, Texas 79605

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email: bubklo@...

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