{"id":8529,"date":"2017-11-06T12:18:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8529"},"modified":"2017-11-06T12:18:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:18:09","slug":"lawsuit-epics-software-double-bills-medicare-medicaid-for-anesthesia-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8529","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit: Epic&#8217;s software double-bills Medicare, Medicaid for anesthesia services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ayla Ellison for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Health IT giant Verona, Wis.-based Epic Systems has been hit with a False Claims Act lawsuit that alleges the company&#8217;s software double-bills Medicare and Medicaid for anesthesia services, resulting in the government being overbilled by hundreds of millions of dollars.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/lawsuit-epic-s-software-double-bills-medicare-medicaid-for-anesthesia.html\"> Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7787\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ayla Ellison for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Health IT giant Verona, Wis.-based Epic Systems has been hit with a False<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8530,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8529\/revisions\/8530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}