THE LAW Can results of medical audits be used as incriminating evidence in court? Page 1
THE LAW Can results of medical audits be used as incriminating evidence in court? CHARLES …

The article offers the author's insights on how to assess the validity of a statistical sample in
Medicare audits. He says that the ability to understand the auditing process and the vital …

Below we print a symposium on medical audit andrecertification. Dr. P. 7. Sanazaro, formerly
of the United StatesDepartment of Health, Education, and Welfare, deals with experience in …

Studies have shown that about 90% of medical litigations could have gone in favour of the
alleged doctors if adequate/proper documents were available. In most medical litigations …

OBJECTIVE--To assess the meaningfulness of a year's worth of audit data relating to all the
inpatients of one consultant general surgeon and to question the usefulness of certain …

The successful use of questioned document examiners in medical malpractice cases
requires: Knowing what a document examiner can do in examining medical records; …

The senior auditor will examine MSP and private billing procedures and claims records and
may also interview other staff members. On the last day of the on-site audit, the senior …

There is a proper way to make a correction to a medical record. If the correction is entered
properly, contemporaneously, has bearing on current patient care, does not embellish or …

The process of being audited can be a distressing event for physicians, whether it's by the
tax department, the Medical Services Commission (MSC), the College of Physicians and …

The growth of interest in medical record audits over the past two decades has been
substantial. With the need for providing some means of assuring the effectiveness of …