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The Final Rule: How to Prevent $389,000 in Medicare Overpayments

Healthicity

New York Hospital to Pay $389,000 to Medicare. In a recent audit of a New York hospital, the HHS OIG identified overpayments.

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Retrieving Billions in Overpayments by CMS

Healthcare IT Today

This article focuses on the relatively young technologies that enable CMS to uncover overbillings, whether they be errors or fraud. Challenges of Investigating Overpayments Undeserved payments are needles lurking in the haystack of 135 million Americans enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

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Will CMS’s Proposed Rule on “Identified Overpayments” Increase Reverse FCA Cases?

Healthcare Law Today

As written, the proposed rule would remove the existing “reasonable diligence” standard for identification of overpayments, and add the “knowing” and “knowingly” FCA definition. And, a provider is required to refund overpayments it is obliged to refund within 60 days of such identified overpayment.

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2024 Final Rule: CMS Announces More Changes to Medicare Advantage but Declines to Reform the “60 Day Rule”

Health Care Law Brief

405.986) or “reliable evidence” of fraud or “similar fault” (as defined in 42 C.F.R. We note, however, that an MA plan may elect to offer, as a Medicare benefit, coverage for post-hospital skilled nursing facility care without a prior qualifying hospital stay that is required under traditional Medicare. See 42 U.S.C.

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Attention New York Medicaid Providers: It’s Time to Upgrade Your Compliance Program

Healthcare Law Blog

In addition, each MMCO must develop a fraud, waste and abuse prevention plan and submit it to OMIG within 90 days of the effective date of the new rules or upon signing a new contract with the New York State Department of Health to begin participation as an MMCO.

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ChristianaCare Settlement Drives New Legal Theory in False Claims Act Litigation: Hospitals Take Note When Providing Clinical Services to Their Private Physician Groups

Healthcare Law Blog

Following the resolution of this case, hospitals are encouraged to revisit their arrangements with private physician groups to ensure that proper safeguards are in place to mitigate FCA risk. Hospitals may also want audit rights to ensure that it has the ability to monitor billing compliance by private physicians on a regular basis.

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Hot off the Press! The OIG Revises its Self-Disclosure Protocol for the First Time in Several Years

Health Law RX

For the first time since 2013, on November 8, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) updated its Health Care Fraud Self-Disclosure Protocol (“SDP”). The likelihood that a self-discloser would be required to pay a damages multiplier greater than 1.5

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