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1. Numbers don't lie (Part 2)
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... service is exactly the same no matter who does the billing. There is NO cost savings to the patient at all. There are some nurse anesthetists who think they can do what an anesthesiologist does because ...

2. CRNAs do not equate with Anesthesiologists
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... on administrative billing data. Such data is inherently limited and NOT applicable for reaching clinical conclusions. It is not scientific to do so. Here in California, we recently had Governator Shwartzenegger, ...

3. Not sure where to begin
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... poorly designed. It was privately funded by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists and involved a retrospective chart review of billing codes. This is hardly good evidence based medicine. Every ...

4. Dont lie.
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California does not allow independent practice. Medicare opt out has to do with billing. Scope of practice in CA requires MD supervision. So please dont twist facts. Also give us the name of your successful ...

5. Paul O'Brien of Hillsborough and Reinaldo Monzon of Hamilton indicted for overcharging Burlington County
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... manager at Laidlaw's Cinnaminson location, with overbilling the county under the BCTS contract between March 10, 2003 and Feb. 19, 2004. Davis allegedly overcharged the county by approximately $32,956 ...

6. John R. Lundy of Blackwood pleads guilty to $300,000 health insurance scam
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Facing 5 years in prison A South Jersey man has pleaded guilty to billing insurance companies for physical therapy treatments he was not licensed to perform. John R. Lundy, 49, of Blackwood, pleaded ...

7. Anna Taliaferro, 73, formerly of Paterson, indicted for allegedly stealing over $102,000 from city's schools
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... for the district, an Abbott school district, and then fraudulently overbilling. Anna Taliaferro, 73, formerly of Paterson and currently of Virginia Beach, Va., is charged with official misconduct, pattern ...

8. Former UMDNJ administrator Frank Watts pleads guilty
(N.J./State)

... Cesario be sentenced to a term of probation after serving up to 364 days in a county jail. He and his company must pay $15,980 in restitution to the state, representing alleged overbilling on UMDNJ contracts, ...

9. ‘Dancing with the Stars’ – a spin off?
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... had some billing errors to my account, and you would not believe the phone calls, the emails, the menu options which had changed! I would have paid money to hear Rhea Perlman or Patti LaBelle get on the ...

10. N.J. doctor Amgad Hessein charged with $52M in health care insurance fraud
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... involved in a scheme of overbilling, upcoding and submitting fraudulent claims for treatments not rendered," said Romankow. The Union County Prosecutor's Office Insurance Fraud Unit and the New York ...

11. Cablevision to increase cable TV rates
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... be an increase of 2.88 percent. That cable rate hike will take effect over the next few months, depending on a customer's specific location and billing cycle. "We have worked hard and been successful ...

12. New Jersey businesses called on to serve
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... The French firm took over local facilities after a series of mergers in the pharmaceutical industry, but many of its operations and people have been here for decades, she said. Courtney Billington, a ...

13. What exactly was the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear?
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... the Tea Party a bit with: "This sign is spelled correctly!" I caught a musician billing himself as the "Congressional Hillbilly" playing ragtime piano on an acoustic upright someone had rolled in, while ...

14. REVIEW: ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ thrills with Broadway expertise
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... "The Scottsboro Boys" is enhanced brilliantly through the fluency of Beowulf Boritt's spare setting of skewed prosceniums, Ken Billington's dynamic, colorful lighting and Toni-Leslie James' artful jumble ...

15. Cablevision will pay for customers to watch World Series on MLB.com
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... within two billing cycles," the cable company announced at 6:30 p.m. The move gives Cablevision more than 900,000 customers in New Jersey, and 3 million total in the Tri-State area, an alternative way ...

16. LeBron James is who he wants to be, NBA's Dark Knight
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... attention hog that went to share the spotlight. The narcissist who went to a city where he has second billing. He'll give up points and shots because we need someone to revile. LeBron James can no longer ...

17. Christie and new Turnpike Authority director moving to clean up agency's spending abuses
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... analysis will be conducted to determine how it compares with other state agencies. She also said a new purchasing and billing process will be created. Hakim, an attorney, spent 23 years with the Metropolitan ...

18. N.J. Turnpike Authority slammed by State comptroller
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... led to the authority paying $224,168 for legal services that were improperly billed. Among the billings were $111,840 for a law firm's weekly internal status meetings that were generally attended by ...

19. Magdy Rafla of East Brunswick gets 3 years in prison for taking $45,000 through insurance fraud
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Wife, dentist Gina Tanios-Rafla, has license suspended A dental office-billing manager was sentenced to three years in state prison Monday for billing insurance companies for $45,000 for dental procedures ...

20. Pharmacist Kamal Moorjani of Lyndhurst gets 3 years for Medicaid fraud
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Submitted $1,289 in phony claims from Jersey City pharmacy A North Jersey pharmacist was sentenced Friday to three years in state prison for billing the Medicaid Program for prescriptions he never dispensed. ...