Wendell, sounds like a good but time-consuming and expensive solution.
Chazli, I have done most all of the things you mentioned. This happens to be a local pharmacy! I tell the diabetic suppliers not to contact me about any extraneous supplies such as heating pads, back braces, knee braces, shoes, etc. If the patient needs those things, they can specifically request them from me and we can discuss them. I have even gone so far as to file Medicare Fraud complaints with DME houses because they have been illegally soliciting my patients. These complaints went nowhere! So much for Obamas plan to stop fraud and abuse.Make me the villain. Why would a script for the testing supplies not suffice for a Medicare audit? If the script I wrote says "Test TID" and I have 120 strips/month then, if the DME houses give more strips and charge Medicare for them that should be easy to track? Why make my job of trying to care for he patient so much more difficult? Ridiculous. Wears me out.
