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Overpayment Provider Payments

King & Spalding

Line Item Disallowances And Coding Denials

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Health plans are using both new and old methods to deny healthcare providers’ claims, all of which are legally and factually unsupportable. These tactics have repeatedly been rejected by arbitrators in scores of arbitrations,...more

Oberheiden P.C.

ZPIC Audits: What Healthcare Providers Need to Know

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Zone Program Integrity Contractors (ZPICs) are federal contractors that work under the direction of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to uncover fraudulent billings under Medicare. ZPICs have broad...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

CMS offers correct billing tips for nonphysician outpatient services provided before or during inpatient stays

Compliance Today (March 2021) - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has provided the following compliance notice: “In a recent report, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) determined that Medicare made...more

K&L Gates LLP

K&L Gates Triage: The Impact of Allina — Potential Limitation on CMS’s Ability to Recoup Overpayments

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In this week’s episode, Adam Cooper discusses the Supreme Court’s decision in Azar v. Allina Health Services, as well as a related memorandum issued in late 2019 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) that...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 28, Number 44. News Briefs: December 2019

Report on Medicare Compliance 28, no. 44 (December 16, 2019) - ? Korunda Medical LLC, a Florida-based company that provides primary care and interventional pain management, has agreed to pay $85,000 to settle a potential...more

McDermott Will & Emery

New Guidance on Medicare Payment Rule Enforcement

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A few days before Thanksgiving, the news media published an internal memo by the Office of General Counsel (OGC) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (Department) to officials at the Centers for Medicare and...more

Polsinelli

CMS Outlines New Standard for Challenging Medicare Payment Denials, Echoing Brand Memo on Force of Sub-Regulatory Guidance

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On October 31, 2019, the Office of General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an important memo from Kelly M. Cleary, CMS Chief Legal Officer, and Brenna E. Jenny, Deputy General...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CMS Rolls Out Provider Appeals Settlement Efforts

This year CMS is rolling out two new programs aimed, finally, at helping to settle certain types of pending provider reimbursement appeals. The programs are the Low Volume Appeals Initiative and Settlement Conference...more

K&L Gates LLP

K&L Gates Triage: Triage in 2018: Health Care Topics to Watch in the New Year

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We expect 2018 to be another year of rapid change within the health care industry. In this episode, Mary Beth Johnston highlights some of the key topics that the health care practice group will monitor in the coming year,...more

Baker Donelson

CMS's Payment Suspensions Wreak Havoc: Understanding the Risks

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CMS payment suspensions can cripple any provider's or supplier's operations. Yet, CMS has the authority to impose a payment suspension upon the mere existence of "reliable information" that an overpayment or fraud may exist....more

McDermott Will & Emery

Program Integrity Changes to the Medicare Provider Enrollment Process

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On March 1, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule (Proposed Rule) entitled “Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance...more

Burr & Forman

Extrapolating Overpayment Claims

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Overpayment audits of physicians are common place and, indeed, should now be expected. When conducting such audits, Medicare auditors often include not only random sampling as an audit technique but have also extrapolated...more

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