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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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Preventing Genetic Testing Fraud: 5 Actions for Health Plans

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Erin Rutzler, Vice President of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse at Cotiviti In Delaware, more than 250 Medicare patients underwent unnecessary genetic testing based on telehealth consultations that often lasted less than two minutes— costing Medicare thousands of dollars per patient. In 2021, a U.S.

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Pennsylvania Man Excluded from All Federal Healthcare Programs for 22 Years 

Healthcare Compliance Blog

Between 2017 and 2019, the man, through a group of pain clinics he controlled, caused the submission of false claims for payment to Medicare. HHS-OIG will continue to work with the US Attorney’s Office to ensure the integrity of the Medicare Trust Fund.”. He is awaiting sentencing on those charges.

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2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010

CMS.gov

2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Fraud, waste, & abuse. These improper payments may be overpayments or underpayments and do not necessarily represent expenses that should not have occurred. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Seema Verma.

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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. The OIG recognized that there are benefits to disclose potential fraud.