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Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 4. News Briefs: February 2020

Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 4 (February 3, 2020) - ? Central Coast Inpatient Consultants Inc. in California has agreed to pay $750,000 in a civil monetary penalty settlement with the HHS Office of Inspector...more

Baker Donelson

Adverse Action Reporting – Avoid Medicare Enrollment Denial or Revocation

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CMS revised its policy guidance regarding adverse action reporting requirements once again in the Medicare Program Integrity Manual (MPIM) Transmittal 865. This guidance is arguably inconsistent with the regulations and with...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

CMS Recoupment Efforts Stopped by Court While Overpayment Appeals Are Pending

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Providers and suppliers who have been assessed overpayments for Medicare services are entitled, by statute, to a stay of recoupment while the provider or supplier’s appeal is pending – but only at the first two levels of...more

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HHS Expands Settlement Conference Facilitation for Medicare Claims Appeals

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on November 3, 2017 additional settlement options for providers and suppliers in an effort to improve the Medicare claims appeals process, which included (1) the Low...more

Jones Day

Focus on Health Care Provider Bankruptcies

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The next few years are expected to see a significant increase in the volume of bankruptcy cases filed by health care providers. Thus far in 2017, the number of bankruptcies in health care-related sectors, including hospitals,...more

Polsinelli

Hospital Medicare Certification at Risk? CMS Clarifies Inpatient Volume Expectations

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Hospitals with dangerously low inpatient volume and micro hospitals focused primarily on the delivery of outpatient and/or emergency room services instead of inpatient services beware: CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Rise of Managed Care Audits and Reimbursement Demands in the Wake of the ACA

If the summer of 2017 demonstrated anything, it is that health care remains a complex and contentious industry. One of its many complications stems from the natural tension between health care providers and health care...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Revoked: CMS's New Take on Record Retention and Access

Recently, we have noticed an alarming increase within the Spilman footprint of revocations by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") of physicians' Medicare billing privileges. In particular, CMS has been...more

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