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Healthcare Compliance Risks with Urine Drug Testing Overpayments 

YouCompli

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%. Review at-risk payments made to at-risk providers during and after the OIG’s audit period and recover any overpayments.

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CMS Publishes RADV Audit Methodology and Intent to Recover Overpayments

Hall Render

billion in overpayments from MAOs for payment years 2011 through 2017. Further, CMS estimates that beginning with payment year 2018, it will identify approximately $479 million per audit year in overpayments to MAOs. Background RADV audits are the main tool that CMS uses to correct overpayments made to MAOs.

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Attention New York Medicaid Providers: It’s Time to Upgrade Your Compliance Program

Healthcare Law Blog

New Subpart 521-1: Compliance Programs The adopted regulations represent substantial changes to 18 N.Y.C.R.R. Part 521 governing the implementation and operation of effective compliance programs for certain “required providers,” including, now for the first time, Medicaid managed care organizations (MMCOs). [1]

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Compliance Risks Associated with Outlier Payments 

YouCompli

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 

YouCompli

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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Healthcare Compliance is Everyone’s Business: Legal, Internal Audit, Human Resources and Quality

YouCompli

Sharon Parsley, JD, MBA, CHC, CHRC contributes a regular post on compliance officer effectiveness for the YouCompli blog. What does it really take to ensure that an organization has a mature, well-integrated, and high-performing Compliance function? On the surface, those have always struck me as very bright line distinctions.

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A million-dollar healthcare compliance monitoring mistake 

YouCompli

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.