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Medicare’s 60-Day Rule

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized significant updates to the Medicare 60-Day Rule, which governs how providers and organizations must handle overpayments. Taking effect January 1, 2025, these...more

Goodwin

Watch the Clock! CMS Makes Important Changes to Medicare Overpayment Rules

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently made meaningful changes to its regulations interpreting the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) so-called “60-day Rule,” which requires Medicare providers to affirmatively...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

CMS Finalizes Standard for Identifying Overpayments and Grace Period for Investigations of Related Overpayments

As part of its 2025 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (PFS Rule), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized two crucial updates to federal Medicare overpayments regulations (sometimes referred to as the...more

PilieroMazza PLLC

Weekly Update Newsletter - December 2018 #4

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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING - According to a Bloomberg Government article, more than 30,000 federal contracting opportunities at twenty-eight (28) agencies are coming up for competition in the coming fiscal years. In a webinar,...more

Jones Day

D.C. District Court Vacates 60-Day Medicare Advantage Overpayment Rule

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The Situation: In 2016, several Medicare Advantage ("MA") organizations challenged a 2014 final rule promulgated by the Center for Medicare Services ("CMS") that broadly subjected MA organizations to potential liability under...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New OIG Exclusion Authority Rule Set To Go Into Effect on March 21, 2017

On January 12, 2017, just a week prior to President Trump’s Inauguration, the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a final Rule (Rule) regarding one of its most important...more

McDermott Will & Emery

New OIG Exclusion Regulations About to Go into Effect

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently published a final rule regarding its exclusion authorities. The final rule goes into effect March 21, 2017, and expands OIG’s authority to exclude certain individuals and...more

BakerHostetler

Final Rule Expands OIG Exclusion Authority

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On January 12, 2017, less than a week before the official transition from one administration to the next, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a rule finalizing...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: OIG Issues Final Rule Re: Exclusion Authority

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The Final Rule related to the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) exclusion authority pursuant to the Social Security Act (the Act), as amended by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Medicare...more

Hogan Lovells

HHS OIG Finalizes New Exclusion Rules as Administration Exits

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With just a week left before a new administration takes office, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) finalized changes to the regulations authorizing OIG to exclude...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

At Long Last, OIG Issues Final Rule for Beneficiary Inducement Safe Harbors

More than two years since issuing the proposed rule, the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued the long-awaited and highly anticipated final rule (the Final Rule) that provides amendments to the Anti-Kickback...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Health Law Insights Newsletter - Issue 10 - June 2016

McCarter & English, LLP’s Health Care Group presents Issue 10 of the Health Law Insights, which discusses the latest legal issues in the health care industry. NATIONAL - Drug Diversion Case Raises Red Flags for...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

CMS Finalizes Rule on Reporting and Returning Medicare Overpayments

The Affordable Care Act (sometimes referred to as Obamacare) included a requirement for providers to report and return all Medicare and Medicaid overpayments within 60 days of identification. Although this requirement has...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Next Steps: Helping Your Organization Implement the New Medicare Overpayment Rule - Part I

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On February 12, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a final rule that explains the requirements for providers and suppliers reporting and returning overpayments under Medicare Parts A & B (the...more

Stinson LLP

Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Announces 60-Day Overpayment Rule

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Reporting and Returning of Overpayments Final Rule (Final Rule) on February 12, 2016. The Final Rule implements Section 6402(a) of the Affordable Care Act,...more

Williams Mullen

CMS Clarifies 60-Day Reporting Requirements For Medicare Parts A & B

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has clarified the reporting requirements and lookback period for overpayments from Medicare Parts A and B in Final Rule 6037 (“Final Rule”), issued by CMS on February 12,...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

Final CMS Rule on the Reporting and Returning of Medicare Overpayments is a Wake-Up Call for Physicians

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Effective March 14, 2016, a final rule published last month by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implements the 60-day rule included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (31 U.S.C. § 1320a-7k(d)). ACA requires...more

Pullman & Comley - Connecticut Health Law

Final Rule Clarifies Requirements for Reporting and Returning Medicare Overpayments

Medicare Part A and B providers and suppliers should take note of new regulations recently issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that implement the Affordable Care Act’s 60-day rule on reporting and returning...more

Dickinson Wright

Physician Compliance Programs: What you need to know about the Final 60-Day Rule

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The 60-Day Rule was enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010 and generally requires a person who has received an overpayment to report and return the overpayment by the later of (i) the date which is 60...more

Harris Beach PLLC

Health Care Group News: Final Rule Regarding Return Of Medicare Overpayments Is More Favorable to Providers Than Anticipated

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One element of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), enacted in March 2010, requires providers to identify, report and return Medicare overpayments. A provider’s failure to do so can result in False Claims Act liability, Civil...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Final 60 Day Overpayment Rule

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CMS has issued the final regulations to implement that section of the Affordable Care Act amending the Social Security Act to provide that retention of identified overpayment could be a false claim and be subject to both the...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

CMS Finalizes Rule Requiring Healthcare Providers to Return Overpayments

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On February 12, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its final rule regulating how healthcare providers must report and return overpayments. This rule implements the Affordable Care Act’s...more

McDermott Will & Emery

CMS Issues Final Rule Governing the Return of Overpayments within 60 Days

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On February 11, 2016, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the much-anticipated final rule concerning Section 6402(a) of the Affordable Care Act, the so-called "60 Day Rule". This section requires...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Health Law Wire: CMS Publishes Final Rule on Reporting and Returning Overpayments Within 60 Days of Identification (2/16)

Four long years after first publishing its proposed rule implementing the 60-day overpayment report and return standard imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare...more

Lathrop GPM

After Nearly Six Years of Uncertainty, CMS Establishes Final Standards for Reporting and Returning Medicare Overpayments

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Background On February 12, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published the long-awaited Final Rule establishing CMS’s official policy for the timely Reporting and Returning of Medicare overpayments...more

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