Innovaare Compliance

MARCH 1, 2022

Since 2017, benchmarks have been rising and in 2019, Medicare spent $321 more per person for MA enrollees than it would have spent for the same beneficiaries under traditional Medicare fee-for-service (FFS). 6] Improper payments can be overpayments and underpayments. 3] The bid is prepared from credible baseline pricing data.

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Healthcare Law Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The ChristianaCare Lawsuit Sherman’s 2017 complaint alleged that ChristianaCare provided prohibited remuneration to Neonatology Associates, a private physician group with an exclusive contract to manage all care in Christiana Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

These players have a wealth of consumer data at their disposal, and those in the retail space have existing locations in some of the most vulnerable areas of the country in terms of access to care (in 2017, 90 percent of Americans lived within 10 miles of a Walmart compared to 82 percent who lived the same distance from a hospital).

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Healthcare Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

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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Medicare Medicare Overpayment Overpayments 52

Hall Render

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Changes to Reinstatements In 2017, OIG finalized regulations implementing a process that allows individuals and entities excluded under section 1128(b)(4) of the Act to request reinstatement before regaining the license that was lost and on which the exclusion is based (referred to as early reinstatement) under two sets of circumstances.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

We are proud to announce that the Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) improper payment rate is at its lowest since 2010 and the decreased improper payment rate from 2017 to 2018 represents a $4.59 These improper payments may be overpayments or underpayments and do not necessarily represent expenses that should not have occurred.

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Hall Render

JUNE 22, 2022

CMS cites to 2017 to show that from 2017 to today, agencies have reduced the number of visits per episode by 16%. CMS states a temporary adjustment is necessary to offset this overpayment. CMS explains that its conclusion that costs are 34% less than reimbursement is correct for two reasons.

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Hall Render

MAY 10, 2024

Vincent reopens Westside Crossing Walk-In Care Indiana’s 2017 abortion law violates free speech, federal judge rules Ind. Parkview Hospitals Awarded ‘A’ In Hospital Safety Grades From Leapfrog Group New nurse apprenticeship program starts at Ascension St.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 29, 2022

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. Bliss said Medicare paid $2.6

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