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Hendershot Cowart P.C.

CMS, Qlarant Scrutinizing Medicare Claims for Skin Substitute Treatments

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Our firm is seeing an uptick in Medicare demand letters for the recovery of overpayment for skin substitutes, such as WoundFixTM, Biobrane, Dermagraft®, AmnioBand®, or AlloPatch®, used in the treatment of wounds. CMS auditors...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

New Sprint Regulations Encourage Investment in EHR and Cybersecurity Technology

On December 2, 2020, under the Trump Administration's "Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care" initiative, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published final...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 42. News Briefs: November 2020 #2

Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 42 (November 23, 2020) - CMS said Nov. 16 that the Medicare fee-for-service improper payment rate dropped to 6.27% in FY 2020 from 7.25% last year, although CMS had to “modify”...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review 2017

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A LOOK BACK... A LOOK AHEAD - While the uncertainty associated with legislative efforts to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) dominated most of the headlines for the healthcare industry last year,...more

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OIG and MA Plan Sponsor Settle Allegations of Altering Records Submitted During Audit

Bravo Health Pennsylvania, Inc. (Bravo), a Medicare Advantage Plan Sponsor and subsidiary of Cigna Corporation, agreed to pay $225,000 to the Government for allegedly misrepresenting or falsifying information furnished to the...more

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