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respiratory

Sleep

Sleep medicine specialist repays $1.2 m for inappropriate item 12250 claims

By Michael Woodhead

12 Aug 2019

A sleep medicine specialist has been reprimanded by the Professional Services Review (PSR) and ordered to repay $1.2 million he received from Medicare for sleep studies under MBS item 12250. The doctor, whose name has been withheld in the report by the Medicare claims watchdog, was also disqualified for six months from item 12250 (‘overnight ...

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