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Healthcare Compliance Risks with Urine Drug Testing Overpayments 

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There has been significant enforcement over the last couple years relating to overpayments for UDT. The overpayment rate for definitive drug testing for 22 or more drug classes was over 71%. The government argued that before ordering definitive UDT, a provider first needs to review the results of the presumptive test.

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Compliance Risks Associated with Outlier Payments 

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Raising prices on your hospital’s chargemaster can also raise your level of compliance grief. Compliance officers can help protect revenue and reduce the risk of penalties by collaborating with the Finance and Reimbursement departments to navigate the dynamics of outlier payments and prospective repayment.

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Avoiding “Gotcha” Moments in Compliance 

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As compliance officers, we are continually placed in a position to influence the actions of others and help shape our organization’s compliance culture. One way to change that perception is to avoid creating “gotcha” moments when you’re working on a compliance-related matter. Here are four tips that will help.

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A million-dollar healthcare compliance monitoring mistake 

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Helping our clinical colleagues feel the urgency of compliance monitoring can be a huge challenge. And the Compliance team simply doesn’t have the clinical expertise to own the monitoring of these requirements. That’s a 41% error rate with an extrapolated overpayment of?$269 Don’t let processes overwhelm clinical colleagues.

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2023 Benchmark Report: Healthy Bottom Lines are Reliant on Cross-Functional Team Collaboration, Technology, & AI Investments

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Ritesh Ramesh, CEO at MDaudit Safeguarding revenues in the coming year requires healthcare systems to proactively navigate an evolving landscape with cross-functional collaboration, technological innovation, and increased AI investments. healthcare organizations.

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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

million to resolve a lawsuit filed by the system’s former Chief Compliance Officer, Ronald Sherman. Global billing or collaborative care arrangements are not per se violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute, however, there is greater fraud and abuse risk in these types of arrangements unless there is active, ongoing monitoring for compliance.

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Improving Patient Care With a “Prevent, Detect, Report” Strategy  

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Mitigating fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) is taking on a new urgency for healthcare compliance professionals. Enforcement agencies are prioritizing efforts to deter FWA as more individuals enroll in government healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and telehealth services continue to evolve post-pandemic.