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Aetna may have received $25.5M in MA overpayments for 2015 and 2016, audit finds

Healthcare Dive

Medical records provided by the insurer didn’t support certain diagnosis codes, resulting in overpayments, according to an audit from the HHS’ Office of the Inspector General.

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OIG audit: Aetna may have raked in $25.5M in MA overpayments in 2015, 2016

Fierce Healthcare

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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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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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. million from non-extrapolated errors based for PYs 2011–2015, an estimated average of $8.2

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Office of Inspector General Work Plan 2015: A Provider's Overview-Part 1

The Health Law Firm

A large part of what the OIG does is review and investigate Medicare claims for overpayment. This Work Plan is the general overview of how the OIG intends to carry out its mission to make the Medicare and Medicaid programs run more smoothly and efficiently in the following year.

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Medicare Advantage 2024 Rate Announcement – Further Impacts to Risk Adjustment

Health Care Law Brief

The 2024 Risk Model uses diagnoses from 2018 and costs reflected from 2019 as opposed to the 2020 Risk Model that used 2014 diagnoses and 2015 costs. In the Advance Notice, CMS predicted that the changes to the risk scores and HCC updates will help prevent overpayments by improving the accuracy of payments made to MAOs. See 88 Fed.

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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

In response, ChristianaCare argued that Sherman himself was responsible for reporting any violations of the Anti-Kickback Statue or Stark Law to the OIG and he did not do so, instead certifying compliance with the CIA.