Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has issued a proposed rule which would amend the existing regulations for reporting and returning identified overpayments (the “Proposed Rule”). UnitedHealthcare challenged the current Overpayment Rule in litigation. [1] UnitedHealthcare Litigation. The Proposed Rule.

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Modern Healthcare

JULY 28, 2022

An OIG audit outlined millions in uncollected overpayments, holes in internal accounting system

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Trade association AHIP said it was “concerned with the potential adverse impact of the rate notice,” especially in light of other recent regulation seeking to claw back overpayments to MA payers.

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Healthicity

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

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

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MRO Compliance

JANUARY 16, 2025

Many claims analysts feel that chasing down overpayments feels like plugging leaks in a sinking boat. By using real-time analytics and data validation tools, payers can catch errors before claims are paid, reducing overpayments, denials, and administrative friction. This is why payers are now shifting toward pre-pay accuracy.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Centene to pay more than $71M to settle Medicaid overpayment cases in Illinois, Arkansas. Thu, 09/30/2021 - 16:43.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Payers recover overpayments 50% faster with enterprise technology: study. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 12:43.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 6, 2023

million in overpayments from Medicare Advantage in 2015 and 2016. | million in overpayments from Medicare Advantage in 2015 and 2016. A new federal audit estimates that Aetna may have received at least $25.5 A new federal audit estimates that Aetna may have received at least $25.5

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

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). How can such overpayments be uncovered? public in overpayments. But the needles pile up fast.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 14, 2023

Steve Lieberman and other experts co-authored | While insurers would likely fight massive changes to the program, experts say less drastic updates could still go a long way toward lowering overpayments. When Paul Ginsburg, Ph.D.,

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Healthicity

MARCH 6, 2025

It requires organizations to identify, report, and return any overpayments within 60 days of discovery. The 60-day rule under the Affordable Care Act is one of the most important compliance regulations for healthcare providers accepting Medicare or Medicaid payments.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Favorable selection of healthier beneficiaries led to overpayments in counties with high Medicare Advantage penetration, but benchmark changes could mitigate the impact, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 13, 2023

Legislators and policymakers have put payments to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans under the microscope, and new analysis highlights why. Legislators and policymakers have put payments to Medicare Advantage plans under the microscope, and new analysis highlights why.

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Medisys Compliance

JULY 5, 2022

What is Medicare Overpayment? An overpayment is a payment made to a provider exceeding amounts due and payable according to existing laws and regulations. Identified overpayments are debts owed to the federal government. Laws and regulations require CMS recover overpayments. Medicare Overpayment Collection Process.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Mayo Clinic and LifePoint Health believe that collusion within pharmaceutical industry forced their organizations to overpay for the multiple myeloma drug Revlimid, and are petitioning the cour | The health systems said agreements between Revlimid's owners, Celgene and Bristol-Myers Squibb, and other drugmakers that delayed full production (..)

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Health Care Law Brief

JUNE 26, 2022

With this denial, the Overpayment Rule remains in full force and effect, and UnitedHealthcare, among other MA plans, must comply or potentially face False Claims Act (FCA) liability. The Overpayment Rule. The Overpayment Rule, set forth at 42 U.S.C. 29844, 29921 (May 23, 2014). See UnitedHealthcare Insurance Co. 3d 173 (Sep.

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YouCompli

MARCH 22, 2023

There has been significant enforcement over the last couple years relating to overpayments for UDT. The overpayment rate for definitive drug testing for 22 or more drug classes was over 71%. Review at-risk payments made to at-risk providers during and after the OIG’s audit period and recover any overpayments.

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Innovaare Compliance

DECEMBER 14, 2023

CMS’s Role and the RADV Audits Program Medicare Advantage overpayments have become alarmingly problematic in the private payer program. The USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics estimated that Medicare Advantage overpayments may exceed $75 billion in 2023. appeared first on Inovaare.

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Healthcare Law Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

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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Healthcare Law Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Likewise CMS cited its fiduciary duty to protect taxpayer dollars from overpayments and its fiduciary responsibility to recover funds due to the Medicare Trust Funds. case number 18-5326 , which reinstated CMS’s Overpayment Rule for MA organizations. The Court of Appeals reversed and reinstated the Overpayment Rule.

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Healthcare Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2023

On August 21, 2023, the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) announced updates to the Medicaid overpayment self-disclosure program, which now includes an abbreviated process for reporting and explaining overpayments that are considered routine or transactional in nature and have been already voided and adjusted.

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Healthicity

MARCH 4, 2022

The OIG continues to perform focused audits on hospital claims using billing data from thousands of hospitals.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 12, 2023

On December 27, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a proposed rule that could potentially have a significant impact on enrollees’ obligations under the “60-day” overpayment rule. In fact, claims reviews to quantify an overpayment is a time-consuming effort and the six-month period is necessary.

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The Health Law Firm

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health On February 11, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule which eased requirements for health care providers to return overpayments within 60 days to avoid False Claims Act (FCA) liability. Indest III, J.D., To read the final rule from CMS, click here.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

Founded in 1995, DCI’s payment integrity services provide millions of dollars of post payment overpayment identifications for clients. DCI has extensive experience in the health care field with over 28 years of experience servicing managed care clients.

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Modern Healthcare

JULY 25, 2022

Providers that don't participate in the 340B program say CMS's plan would lead to unfair overpayments to 340B providers.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2022

The good news about prescription drugs, in the context of medical spending in the U.S., is that 9 in 10 medicines prescribed are generics. They comprise only 3% of all U.S. healthcare spending. But there’s bad news about prescription drugs in the context of medical spending in America.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

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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Modern Healthcare

MARCH 17, 2022

As Xavier Becerra approaches his one-year anniversary at HHS' helm, he's interested in working with Congress on Medicare Advantage overpayment issues and physician payment reform.

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The Health Law Firm

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Our firm has been consulted recently by owners of different health care entities, including assisted living facilities (ALFs), group homes, home health agencies and even medical groups that had received Medicaid overpayment demands. This resulted in a Medicaid overpayment assessment.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 2, 2024

Medicare Part D will cover certain over-the-counter products when prescribed by a clinician, and when it does, the program pays far more for these drugs, according to a

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Modern Healthcare

AUGUST 18, 2022

CMS could consider a policy more like the one it used to correct for overpayments to nursing homes, home health leaders said.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Read more… Retrieving Billions in Medicare Overpayments. Improper payments for Medicare are estimated to exceed $43 billion per year, and determining overpayments in open-ended value-based Medicare Advantage plans poses a problem. Read more… Fixing Medicare Advantage Payments.

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YouCompli

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Even if an entity makes an isolated billing error, that entity still has an obligation to repay the overpayment to avoid False Claims Act liability. This includes conducting regular reviews to ensure billing and coding practices are current and accurate, as well as performing regular internal billing and coding audits.

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Healthicity

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued a report concluding that Medicare and patients combined overpaid more than a million dollars for the same professional services provided at critical access hospitals (CAH). Who Bills for Professional Services?

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Health Law Advisor

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

For these years, CMS will limit payment recoveries to “enrollee-level adjustments,” i.e., the non-extrapolated overpayments identified in CMS RADV audits and Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) audits. CMS expects to recover a total of $4.7 This total includes $41.1

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Healthicity

APRIL 12, 2022

The OIG’s Annual Workplan for 2022 includes the continuous auditing and monitoring of items and services.

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