Texas Medicaid fraud officials are warning doctors that an entity calling itself the "Office of HIPPA Compliance" has been sending invoices to medical providers for services they've never received.
One of the first clues that the invoices are bogus: The acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 is actually HIPAA, not HIPPA. Then there's the fact that payment is directed to a UPS post office box.
The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit field office in Dallas said it was alerted to the scheme by someone who was sent one of these invoices. The address given on the invo...
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