Healthcare Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2023

On August 21, 2023, the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) announced updates to the Medicaid overpayment self-disclosure program, which now includes an abbreviated process for reporting and explaining overpayments that are considered routine or transactional in nature and have been already voided and adjusted.

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Medisys Compliance

JULY 5, 2022

What is Medicare Overpayment? An overpayment is a payment made to a provider exceeding amounts due and payable according to existing laws and regulations. Identified overpayments are debts owed to the federal government. Laws and regulations require CMS recover overpayments. Medicare Overpayment Collection Process.

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Modern Healthcare

JULY 28, 2022

An OIG audit outlined millions in uncollected overpayments, holes in internal accounting system

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Healthicity

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

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

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Payers recover overpayments 50% faster with enterprise technology: study. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 12:43.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 12, 2023

On December 27, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a proposed rule that could potentially have a significant impact on enrollees’ obligations under the “60-day” overpayment rule. In fact, claims reviews to quantify an overpayment is a time-consuming effort and the six-month period is necessary.

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Healthcare Law Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

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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Health Care Law Brief

JUNE 26, 2022

With this denial, the Overpayment Rule remains in full force and effect, and UnitedHealthcare, among other MA plans, must comply or potentially face False Claims Act (FCA) liability. The Overpayment Rule. The Overpayment Rule, set forth at 42 U.S.C. 29844, 29921 (May 23, 2014). See UnitedHealthcare Insurance Co. 3d 173 (Sep.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Favorable selection of healthier beneficiaries led to overpayments in counties with high Medicare Advantage penetration, but benchmark changes could mitigate the impact, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Centene to pay more than $71M to settle Medicaid overpayment cases in Illinois, Arkansas. Thu, 09/30/2021 - 16:43.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

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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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 13, 2023

Legislators and policymakers have put payments to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans under the microscope, and new analysis highlights why. Legislators and policymakers have put payments to Medicare Advantage plans under the microscope, and new analysis highlights why.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 1, 2022

Consumers are overpaying for generic drug prescriptions by as much as 20% due to pharmacy benefit manager practices like copay clawbacks and spread pricing, researchers found.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Trade association AHIP said it was “concerned with the potential adverse impact of the rate notice,” especially in light of other recent regulation seeking to claw back overpayments to MA payers.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Humana has filed suit against the feds, saying the Biden administration's bid to claw back overpayments in Medicare Advantage (MA) is built on "shifting justifications and erroneous legal reasoning | Humana has filed suit against the feds, saying the Biden administration's bid to claw back overpayments in Medicare Advantage is built (..)

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Healthicity

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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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Healthcare Law Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Likewise CMS cited its fiduciary duty to protect taxpayer dollars from overpayments and its fiduciary responsibility to recover funds due to the Medicare Trust Funds. case number 18-5326 , which reinstated CMS’s Overpayment Rule for MA organizations. The Court of Appeals reversed and reinstated the Overpayment Rule.

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The Health Law Firm

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health On February 11, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule which eased requirements for health care providers to return overpayments within 60 days to avoid False Claims Act (FCA) liability. Indest III, J.D., To read the final rule from CMS, click here.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

Founded in 1995, DCI’s payment integrity services provide millions of dollars of post payment overpayment identifications for clients. DCI has extensive experience in the health care field with over 28 years of experience servicing managed care clients.

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Healthicity

MARCH 4, 2022

The OIG continues to perform focused audits on hospital claims using billing data from thousands of hospitals.

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NEJM

JANUARY 13, 2023

A 2022 Supreme Court ruling raises questions about the 340B program’s outsized effect on the health care system’s structure and on the role of hospitals in providing care to underserved populations.

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Health Law RX

MARCH 30, 2023

Setting aside the incalculable impact that litigation can have on business operations, the statute itself anticipates repayment of the proven overpayment, treble damages, and exposure to a civil statutory penalty equal to a range between $13,508 and $27,018 per false claim. The defendants disagreed.

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Health Law Advisor

AUGUST 25, 2023

Social Services Law § 363-d) codified in New York State law federal requirements and OMIG policies require Medicaid providers who have received an overpayment to report, return, and explain the overpayment by making a disclosure to OMIG within sixty (60) days of identifying the overpayment.

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Modern Healthcare

JULY 25, 2022

Providers that don't participate in the 340B program say CMS's plan would lead to unfair overpayments to 340B providers.

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Modern Healthcare

MARCH 17, 2022

As Xavier Becerra approaches his one-year anniversary at HHS' helm, he's interested in working with Congress on Medicare Advantage overpayment issues and physician payment reform.

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Provider Trust

JUNE 30, 2023

Maintaining the highest payment integrity standards helps payers avoid unnecessary payments, recover overpayments, and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) in healthcare billing. In this model, healthcare claims are paid upfront, and then potential errors, overpayments, or fraudulent claims are “chased down” after payment has been made.

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Healthicity

APRIL 12, 2022

The OIG’s Annual Workplan for 2022 includes the continuous auditing and monitoring of items and services.

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Health Law Advisor

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

For these years, CMS will limit payment recoveries to “enrollee-level adjustments,” i.e., the non-extrapolated overpayments identified in CMS RADV audits and Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) audits. CMS expects to recover a total of $4.7 This total includes $41.1

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Health Care Law Brief

APRIL 12, 2023

Notable Omissions from Proposed Rule CMS declined to adopt previously proposed amendments to the standard for “identified overpayments” under Medicare Parts A, B, C, and D. The Social Security Act requires “a person” who has received an overpayment to report and return the overpayment no later than 60 days after being “identified.”

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Read more… Retrieving Billions in Medicare Overpayments. Improper payments for Medicare are estimated to exceed $43 billion per year, and determining overpayments in open-ended value-based Medicare Advantage plans poses a problem. Read more… Fixing Medicare Advantage Payments.

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Modern Healthcare

AUGUST 18, 2022

CMS could consider a policy more like the one it used to correct for overpayments to nursing homes, home health leaders said.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 15, 2023

Across the healthcare industry, outdated technology, inadequate infrastructure and intractable data silos make it difficult to prevent these misapplied discounts, resulting in drug manufacturer overpayment.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2022

The good news about prescription drugs, in the context of medical spending in the U.S., is that 9 in 10 medicines prescribed are generics. They comprise only 3% of all U.S. healthcare spending. But there’s bad news about prescription drugs in the context of medical spending in America.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 22, 2022

Smart Response complements Anomaly’s planned suite of products powered by its AI claim prediction engine, including overpayment prediction, which enables payers to predict and prevent overpayments by learning from previously overpaid claims, and instant payments, which will enable providers to immediately get paid upon claim submission.

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Healthcare Law Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

New Subpart 521-3: Self-Disclosure Program New Subpart 521-3 implements the long-standing requirement that all enrolled Medicaid providers report, return and explain overpayments received from the Medicaid program through OMIG’s Self-Disclosure Program.

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The Health Law Firm

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Our firm has been consulted recently by owners of different health care entities, including assisted living facilities (ALFs), group homes, home health agencies and even medical groups that had received Medicaid overpayment demands. This resulted in a Medicaid overpayment assessment.

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The Health Law Firm

AUGUST 18, 2022

As a result, auditing and subsequent overpayment demands are some very real possibilities. Indest III, J.D., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Florida healthcare providers servicing Medicaid patients are at a higher risk for audits than anywhere else in the country.

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