In its Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2012, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it would begin reviews of Medicare payments to hospitals to determine compliance with selected billing requirements.
Over the past three years, following these compliance audits, the OIG has increasingly been using the results of these reviews to recommend recovery of overpayments and identify providers that routinely submit improper claims.
Originally published in BNA’s Health Care Fraud Report on September 30, 2015.
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