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CMS Proposes to Amend Overpayment Rule, Remove Potential Overpayment and False Claims Act Liability for Mere Negligence

Healthcare Law Blog

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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Centene to pay more than $71M to settle Medicaid overpayment cases in Illinois, Arkansas

Fierce Healthcare

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

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Retrieving Billions in Overpayments by CMS

Healthcare IT Today

government and calls for better oversight , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in early February that it would investigate overbilling by those plans. In 2020 and 2021, doctors, nurses, and other staff risked their lives hourly to treat patients who had COVID-19, often without knowing who had it.

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The Supreme Court Denies Petition Challenging CMS’s Overpayment Rule

Health Care Law Brief

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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Report: Inaccurate Drug Discount Requests Reach Nearly $1B

HIT Consultant

Rising Costs of Inaccurate Drug Discount Claims As the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program (MDRP), 340B Drug Pricing Program and other similar programs expand, so do the volume and cost of duplicate discounts and other inaccurate drug discount claims.

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New York State OMIG Makes Regulatory Modifications to Compliance Program Requirements

Health Law Advisor

It is axiomatic that New York State requires every Medicaid provider to have an “effective” compliance program. These regulations were proposed to implement portions of the New York State 2020-2021 Budget Bill amending the mandatory compliance program requirements. New York Social Services Law § 363-d.

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OIG Revises Self-Disclosure Protocol

Florida Health Care Law Firm

On November 8, 2021, The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a revised and renamed Provider Self-Disclosure Protocol (SDP), now known as the “Health Care Fraud Self Disclosure “protocol.