May 17, 2019

Dr. Donald Douglas, the physician owner of three healthcare clinics in Texas, has agreed to pay $118,000 to resolve allegations of improperly billing Medicare at the physician rate for services performed by advance practice nurses (“APNs”) without direct physician supervision.  Under Texas law, APN-provided services performed with physician supervision may be billed to Medicare at the full physician rate.  USAO EDTX

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