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What If Costco Designed the Prescription Drugs Sales Model?

Health Populi

” Two of the researchers behind the paper previously wrote a letter in JAMA published in October 2021 (with several additional colleagues) comparing spending on generic drugs by Medicare Part D compared to Costco members, The USC Schaeffer white paper speaks to those findings. is that 9 in 10 medicines prescribed are generics.

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New York State OMIG Makes Regulatory Modifications to Compliance Program Requirements

Health Law Advisor

In July 2022, the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (“OMIG”) proposed extensive modifications to the regulatory requirements governing compliance programs for entities receiving “significant” Medicaid revenue (increased by these regulations from a threshold of $500,000 to $1 million).

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Monitor Improper Payments for Part C and Part D with Medicare Audit and Monitoring Software

Innovaare Compliance

in 2021 to $170.00 annually on average between 2021 and 2029 compared to 4.4% 6] Improper payments can be overpayments and underpayments. In November 2021, CMS announced a Part C improper payment rate of 10.28% ($23.19 The monthly premium for Medicare Part B rose 14.5%, from $148.50 in Social Security benefits.

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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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Navigating the Intersection of Payment Integrity and Provider Relations in Healthcare

Innovaare Compliance

2021, January 15). 2021, April). Inovaare transforms complex compliance processes by designing configurable AI-driven automation solutions so healthcare organizations can collect real-time data across internal and external departments, creating one compliance management system. The Challenge of Health Care Fraud.

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Preventing Genetic Testing Fraud: 5 Actions for Health Plans

Healthcare IT Today

In 2021, a U.S. The surge in genetic testing claims comes with a rise in fraud, waste and abuse across government and commercial payers. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) analysis showed Medicare payments for genetic testing quadrupled from 2016 to 2019. Common schemes include: Code stacking.

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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. Each case will be determined individually.