Tag: Podiatry
Podiatrist, recruiter sentenced for $8.5M compounding scheme
December 9, 2024HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – A podiatrist and a patient recruiter were sentenced to 45 months and 60 months in prison, respectively, and ordered to pay more than $7 million in restitution for their roles in a scheme to fraudulently bill TRICARE for compounded pain and scar creams. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Brian Carpenter, 58, of Paradise, Texas, was a podiatrist who signed prescriptions for compounded pain and scar creams for TRICARE beneficiaries to whom he never spoke...
CMS discriminates against doctors of podiatric medicine, council says
February 27, 2015HME News Staff
ATLANTA - The AFL-CIO Executive Council issued a statement on Feb. 25 calling on Congress to enact legislation to recognize doctors of podiatric medicine as “physicians” in Title XIX of the Social Security Act governing Medicaid. DPMs are already defined as physicians in Title XVIII of the Social Security Act governing Medicare. The council also called for an amendment of the Social Security Act governing Medicare to recognize the ability of DPMs to independently certify the need for...