Compliance Fraud Overpayments Presentation 
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.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 8, 2022
based attorney in the health law practice of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz about what providers should be doing to ensure compliance when the PHE finally sunsets. What do you see as the primary compliance issues providers will have to contend with? We spoke recently with Allison M. Cohen, a Washington, D.C.-based
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C&M Health Law
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published the General Compliance Program Guidance (GCPG) on November 6, 2023. The GCPG provides updated descriptions of the seven elements of an effective compliance program that health care entities have long relied upon. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S.
Med-Net Compliance
OCTOBER 21, 2022
The government’s primary civil tool for addressing healthcare fraud is the FCA. The risk categories are described as follows: Highest Risk—Exclusion: Parties that the OIG determines present the highest risk of fraud will be excluded from Federal healthcare programs to protect those programs and their beneficiaries.
Healthcare Law Blog
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
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.
AIHC
APRIL 5, 2022
Due to the huge volume of claims payers receive to process, deny and pay, they have implemented various methods to track providers to detect potential waste, fraud and/or abuse. If the payer, such as Medicare, performs an extrapolation, reducing each overpayment dollar through appeal can mean thousands less to pay back.
AIHC
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Compliance Considerations for Best Outcomes Written in collaboration with the AIHC Volunteer Education Committee Delivering mental health services via telehealth has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes understanding various fraud and abuse laws. Telehealth rules and regulations vary greatly by state.
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