Although you may speak of a “routine” Medicare audit, there is really no such creature. This is like saying you have a “routine IRS audit.” The fact is that there is some item you have claimed as a Medicare provider or the amount of claims Medicare has paid in a certain category that has caused …

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If you are a doctor, nurse, patient, or just someone interested in patient safety, you should read a five-part story called “The Overdose: Harm in a Wired Hospital” excerpted from a book The Digital Doctor by Dr. Robert Wachter. Dr. Wachter and the hospital are to be commended for publicizing this incident so others may …

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