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CMS’s Final Rule on Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment Data Validation

Health Law Advisor

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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Health Facility Entitled to Attorney's Fees Against AHCA in Defending Medicaid Overpayment Case

The Health Law Firm

FACTS: Via three Final Audit Reports dated July 10, 2013, AHCA advised the Chrysalis Center that it had overbilled the Medicaid program by $284,535.83 Indest III, J.D., for community mental health services.

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Medicare Audit Claims University of Miami Hospital Owes Government $3.7 Million

The Health Law Firm

The report was released on October 8, 2013, by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG).

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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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What Are THE 3 Major Things Addressed in the HIPAA Law?

HIPAA Journal

Furthermore, it could also be argued that neither Rule was effectively enforced until the Omnibus Final Rule was published in 2013. It was not until 2002 that the Privacy Rule was published, and 2003 that the Security Rule was published. How HIPAA Addressed Health Insurance Reform.

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Government Watchdogs Attack Medicare Advantage for Denying Care and Overcharging

Kaiser Health News

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. CMS is scheduled to release the audits later this year.

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