Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Amid swirling accusations that Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) are overbilling the U.S. government and calls for better oversight , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in early February that it would investigate overbilling by those plans. How can such overpayments be uncovered?

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 1, 2022

In Ohio, unemployment overpayments reached $3.86 billion on their MES and eligibility and enrollment systems, according to a 2020 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reimbursed states $34.3 billion during the pandemic. billion of that amount.

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AIHC

APRIL 5, 2022

Written by: AIHC Blogger This article provides educational information related to mitigating the risk of an unwarranted payer investigation. This is the final article in a 3-part series on denials and appeals management. The government's primary civil tool for addressing healthcare fraud is the False Claims Act (FCA).

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AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This article is not intended as legal or consulting advice. If your practice is currently using a telebehavioral health approach for patient treatment, or if you organization is considering implementing this approach, we hope this article will give some food-for-thought on the topic. This is also called “store-and-forward telemedicine.”

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YouCompli

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The net of it is this: Our Compliance Department performed a compliance audit related to sleep studies that resulted in a significant payback to the federal government that could have been avoided if monitoring was being performed by the Sleep Center Clinical leadership. That’s a 41% error rate with an extrapolated overpayment of?$269

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 30, 2022

Articles discussing the 3 major things addressed in the HIPAA law often tend to focus on the Administrative, Physical, and Technical Safeguards of the Security Rule. However, when HIPAA was passed, the standards governing health care data, patients´ rights, and the flow of information were still several years away.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 19, 2024

NATIONAL 13 major health systems partner with high schools in $250M Bloomberg initiative Acute Hospital Care at Home data released AI can help identify social determinants of health American Hospital Association Sues Over Updated HIPAA Guidance Bill aims to push price transparency to ASCs Billing for patient messages to clinicians is increasing, study (..)

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