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CMS Publishes RADV Audit Methodology and Intent to Recover Overpayments

Hall Render

billion in overpayments from MAOs for payment years 2011 through 2017. Further, CMS estimates that beginning with payment year 2018, it will identify approximately $479 million per audit year in overpayments to MAOs. Background RADV audits are the main tool that CMS uses to correct overpayments made to MAOs.

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CMS’s Final Rule on Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment Data Validation

Health Law Advisor

As stated in the final rule, CMS intends to extrapolate RADV audit findings beginning with payment year (PY) 2018 but will not extrapolate RADV audit findings retroactively for PYs 2011–2017. billion between 2023 and 2032 from MAOs based on both non-extrapolated and extrapolated overpayment amounts. This total includes $41.1

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CMS Issues Long-Awaited Medicare Advantage RADV Final Rule

Healthcare Law Blog

The Final Rule implements the following changes: CMS will extrapolate RADV audit findings beginning with payment year (“PY”) 2018 and will not extrapolate RADV audit findings for PYs 2011 through 2017. case number 18-5326 , which reinstated CMS’s Overpayment Rule for MA organizations. Becerra et al., 42 C.F.R. §§ 422.326(d), (c).

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Georgia Nursing Home Settles to Resolve Allegations of False Claims for Therapy Services

Healthcare Compliance Blog

It is alleged that between January 2011 and November 2014, the Georgia nursing home submitted claims to Medicare for unreasonable, unnecessary, and unskilled services for rehabilitation therapy. The Georgia nursing home agreed to pay $400,000 to resolve the allegations. This amount was based on the nursing home’s ability to pay.

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Medicare Advantage RADV Audit Final Rule Challenged in Court

Healthcare Law Blog

Refresher on the RADV Final Rule The Final Rule will implement the following changes: CMS will extrapolate RADV audit findings beginning with payment year (“PY”) 2018, and will not extrapolate RADV audit findings for PYs 2011 through 2017, though it will continue to collect the non-extrapolated overpayments that are identified.

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Government Watchdogs Attack Medicare Advantage for Denying Care and Overcharging

Kaiser Health News

They also called for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, to revive a foundering audit program that is more than a decade behind in recouping billions in suspected overpayments to the health plans, which are run mostly by private insurance companies.

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