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Advance Health: Shattering Stigma Through Mental Wellbeing session May 2024

27 May 2024

Advance Health May session, ‘Shattering Stigma Through Mental Wellbeing’ brought together key stakeholders to discuss how to improve patient’s mental health journey in healthcare and how to remove barriers to care.

Watch the full session Advance Health: Shattering Stigma Throu…

Criminal Trial – Expert Opinion

7 May 2024

Dr Margaret Faux was engaged to provide an expert opinion concerning allegations of Medicare fraud in criminal proceedings. This project involved analysing over 7,500 lines of Medicare claims and associated clinical records to provide an opinion concerning whether the available e…

Professional Services Review Agency – Expert Opinion

7 May 2024

Dr Margaret Faux was engaged to provide an expert opinion regarding Medicare billing compliance by a medical specialist. This project involved analysing the full sample of claims seized by the PSR and reporting her opinion on whether the evidence supported compliant Medicare bill…

Public Hospital Billing

7 May 2024

Dr Margaret Faux was engaged to provide an expert opinion regarding Medicare billing compliance by a medical specialist billing to Medicare at a public hospital. This engagement included Dr Faux appearing as an expert witness before a state inquiry.

Workers Compensation Billing

7 May 2024

Our client was a state regulator of a workers compensation scheme who was concerned about the incidence of fraud and abuse it believed was occurring in certain areas.

The project involved analysing 32,000 lines of medical billing claims including anaesthesia, surgery, surgica…

Medicare Billing

7 May 2024

Our client engaged us to analyse approximately 26,500 lines of Medicare claims valued at over $35 million which spanned a one-year period. These claims were billed by over 200 GPs.

This project was undertaken in the context of due diligence related to a potential acquisition….

Call for National Medical Records Audit

2 May 2024

Margaret and other health professionals call on the government to give greater powers to the Professional Services Review Agency to conduct national medical records audits.
Anaesthetist Joanna Sutherland (chair of the Safety and Quality Committee of the Australian and New Zealan…

ABC Investigations: Fraud, waste and abuse

2 May 2024

Another informative article from ABC Investigations, published on May 1st 2024, about the fraud, waste and abuse by some medical professionals within the Medicare billing system. This time with a focus on questionable billing by Anaesthetists.

Dr Sutherland, Dr Peck and I have…