Health Law Advisor

AUGUST 25, 2023

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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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

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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Innovaare Compliance

MARCH 24, 2024

The Importance of Payment Integrity Payment integrity is crucial for health plans to control costs, reduce fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA), and ensure the accuracy of healthcare payments. billion in healthcare fraud judgments and settlements. billion in healthcare fraud judgments and settlements.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It has given every indication that it intends to investigate fraud, waste, and abuse more robustly in the foreseeable future. The Justice Department has joined the fraud case against one large national insurer. In the most recent audit , the organization looked at more than 15,000 beneficiaries in the payment year 2021.

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Florida Health Care Law Firm

DECEMBER 2, 2021

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.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 26, 2022

Compliance with Oct. Alaska’s COVID ‘superstorm’ experience of 2021 offers lessons for future pandemics, study says. Charles workers launch petition, refuse to repay overpayments without outside audit; union files BOLI complaint. CHS faces class-action fraud suit. CMS proposes mandatory Medicaid, CHIP quality reporting.

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