Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Retrieving Billions in Medicare Overpayments. Read more… Fixing Medicare Advantage Payments. Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The following is a guest article by John Wallace, PT, OCS, Senior Vice President of RCM at WebPT. The number of Medicare TPEs and commercial payer take-back audits alone is skyrocketing. They also look to flag “items and services that have high national error rates and are a financial risk to Medicare.” Tricare and Medicare).

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

The following is a guest article by Ritesh Ramesh, CEO at MDaudit Safeguarding revenues in the coming year requires healthcare systems to proactively navigate an evolving landscape with cross-functional collaboration, technological innovation, and increased AI investments.

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Overpayments Overpayment Compliance Medicare 117

YouCompli

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Most federal healthcare payors such as Medicare and Medicaid reimburse most providers on a prospective basis. This is why Medicare publishes its rules on their Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) or its Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS). The inflated charges resulted in inappropriate outlier payments from Medicare.

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Compliancy Group

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This is because the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have ramped up their efforts to identify organizations that have improperly billed for medical services. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) created UPIC audits to identify and stop fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid.

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Fraud Compliance Medicare Medicare 52

YouCompli

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Enforcement agencies like to “follow the money,” so to speak, and they often find it in medical claims submitted to government payors such as Medicare and Medicaid. Since claims are submitted electronically, Medicare and others use a system of claims edits to avoid paying claims inappropriately.

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Compliance Overpayments Overpayment Medicare 52

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

The following is a guest article by Erin Rutzler, Vice President of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse at Cotiviti In Delaware, more than 250 Medicare patients underwent unnecessary genetic testing based on telehealth consultations that often lasted less than two minutes— costing Medicare thousands of dollars per patient.

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YouCompli

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Enforcement agencies are prioritizing efforts to deter FWA as more individuals enroll in government healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and telehealth services continue to evolve post-pandemic. In addition, CMS education and outreach focuses on preventing, detecting, and reporting Medicare fraud and abuse.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The following is a guest article by Rebecca Darnall, R isk Adjustment Leader at Episource. As proof, several health plans have been making headlines for coding errors and other issues that surfaced during audits: In just the third quarter of 2022, at least four audits have specifically targeted Medicare Advantage plans.

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Medicare Medicare Overpayments Overpayment 61

AIHC

MARCH 28, 2022

Written by: AIHC Blogger This article provides educational information related to fighting unreasonable denials by working through a complex payer appeals process. This information is not all-inclusive and the article is a truncated version of Lesson 3 from our Certified Outpatient Clinical Appeals Specialist (COCAS SM ) training program.

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AIHC

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The information provided in this article is not comprehensive and not intended as consulting or legal advice. Examples of these types of audits would be a Joint Commission, or CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) contractor audit. Corrective action includes refunding overpayments revealed during the audit.

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AIHC

APRIL 5, 2022

Written by: AIHC Blogger This article provides educational information related to mitigating the risk of an unwarranted payer investigation. This is the final article in a 3-part series on denials and appeals management. This ends Part 3 for the denials and appeals article series.

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Fraud Medicare Medicare Compliance 52

AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This article is not intended as legal or consulting advice. If your practice is currently using a telebehavioral health approach for patient treatment, or if you organization is considering implementing this approach, we hope this article will give some food-for-thought on the topic. This is also called “store-and-forward telemedicine.”

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Informed Consent Compliance 59

Hall Render

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Further, entities should review non-monetary compensation provided in 2023 to ensure that such compensation did not exceed the 2023 limit of $489 and take any necessary corrective action to repay excess amounts within 180 days of the overpayment or by December 31, 2023.

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Hall Render

APRIL 18, 2022

CMS plans to increase Medicare reimbursement for SNFs by 3.9% reduction in funds to account for overpayments by CMS in previous years per Modern Healthcare. Hall Render blog posts and articles are intended for informational purposes only. The Public Health Emergency has been in effect since January 27, 2020. in fiscal year 2023.

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YouCompli

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The review found providers often did not meet the Medicare billing requirements – a whopping 83 of 200 were in error. That’s a 41% error rate with an extrapolated overpayment of?$269 Never miss an article from Brian. 269 million.?. The majority of the errors were due to: Incomplete medical record documentation.

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Compliance Compliance Officers Overpayments Overpayment 52

Hall Render

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As part of the final regulations released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) effective January 19, 2021, CMS finalized a new exception for arrangements where an entity pays a physician less than $5,000 over the course of a calendar year in exchange for items or services. New Exception for Limited Remuneration.

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COVID-19 Hospitals Overpayments Overpayment 40

AIHC

MARCH 22, 2022

This article provides a basic overview of the importance of improving your appeals process to get denials overturned as it relates to overall revenue cycle management. Monitor Reports for Inappropriate Write-Offs Are accounts reconciled and overpayments identified and handled properly?

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Overpayments Overpayment Medicare Medicare 52

Hall Render

JUNE 22, 2022

On Friday, June 17, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) posted a pre-publication copy of the Calendar Year (“CY”) 2023 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update (“PPS Rule”). CMS states a temporary adjustment is necessary to offset this overpayment. Submission of All-Payer OASIS Data.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 30, 2022

Articles discussing the 3 major things addressed in the HIPAA law often tend to focus on the Administrative, Physical, and Technical Safeguards of the Security Rule. billion recovered relating to Medicare fraud alone. In 2021, 97 non qui tam cases were investigated and $3.59 The total recovered in 2021 exceeded $5 billion.

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HIPAA Fraud Health Insurance Health Care Reform 131

HIT Consultant

MARCH 1, 2022

In Ohio, unemployment overpayments reached $3.86 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reimbursed states $34.3 billion during the pandemic. In New Jersey, a call for experts in the 60-year-old programming language COBOL was issued to “metaphorically” highlight the age of its systems. billion of that amount.

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Medicaid Medicaid Overpayments Overpayment 52

Hall Render

JANUARY 19, 2024

NATIONAL 13 major health systems partner with high schools in $250M Bloomberg initiative Acute Hospital Care at Home data released AI can help identify social determinants of health American Hospital Association Sues Over Updated HIPAA Guidance Bill aims to push price transparency to ASCs Billing for patient messages to clinicians is increasing, study (..)

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