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The Final Rule: How to Prevent $389,000 in Medicare Overpayments

Healthicity

New York Hospital to Pay $389,000 to Medicare. In a recent audit of a New York hospital, the HHS OIG identified overpayments.

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Will CMS’s Proposed Rule on “Identified Overpayments” Increase Reverse FCA Cases?

Healthcare Law Today

As written, the proposed rule would remove the existing “reasonable diligence” standard for identification of overpayments, and add the “knowing” and “knowingly” FCA definition. And, a provider is required to refund overpayments it is obliged to refund within 60 days of such identified overpayment.

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OIG Findings on Overpayments at Critical Access Hospitals

Healthicity

Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued a report concluding that Medicare and patients combined overpaid more than a million dollars for the same professional services provided at critical access hospitals (CAH). Who Bills for Professional Services?

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Fixing Medicare Advantage Payments

Healthcare IT Today

There’s widespread consensus that payments to Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) are a mess. These programs, which care for more than 30 million of the nearly 64 million Medicare enrollees , operate on the cutting edge of health care and suffer serious problems in data collection and billing.

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Supreme Court Rules Against HHS in Hospital Medicare Reimbursement Case

The Health Law Firm Blog

Supreme Court said the federal government improperly cut more than $1 billion a year in Medicare reimbursements to hospitals. Indest III, J.D., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On June 15, 2022, the U.S. This came in a ruling that limits regulators’ power to control what the program pays for certain [.]

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2024 Final Rule: CMS Announces More Changes to Medicare Advantage but Declines to Reform the “60 Day Rule”

Health Care Law Brief

On April 5, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the 2024 Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Benefit Programs Final Rule (“Final Rule”), which will be codified at 42 C.F.R. The SRFs include low-income subsidy, dual eligibility (meaning eligible for Medicare and Medicaid) and disability.

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Posthospital SNF Care in Indiana Generally Met Medicare Level-of-Care Requirements

Healthcare Compliance Blog

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) released their findings of an audit they conducted to determine if hospital admissions of Indiana skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents who are enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid (dually eligible beneficiaries) were potentially avoidable, and if level-of-care requirements for Medicare were met.