Hospice Insights Podcast - Meet the New Laws, Same as the Old Laws: Overpayment Recoupment Update
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - SECURE 2.0 Act - More Relief for Plan Administrators
Recent Tenth Circuit Decision in John Q Hammons Fall Following SCOTUS’ Decision in Siegel v. Fitzgerald Could Result in Significant Refunds for Certain Chapter 11 Debtors
Nuts and Bolts of a Repayment Investigation: Keys to Conducting Investigations Under the 60-Day Repayment Rule
Hospice Audit Series: The Latest Developments and Strategies for Success in the Ever-changing Audit Landscape
As government scrutiny and enforcement targeting the Medicare Advantage (Medicare Part C) program continued in 2024, the industry’s response to agency actions escalated. Last year also resulted in the first sizable Part D...more
On November 12, 2024, OIG published a report concluding that the Medicare program overpaid acute-care hospitals an estimated $190 million over five years for outpatient services provided to hospice enrollees....more
Hospices that have been audited have to decide how to address any alleged overpayment identified by the auditor, whether through a voluntary repayment, recoupment, or applying for an extended repayment schedule. CMS recently...more
Earlier this year the IRS announced that, as part of its larger compliance efforts begun last fall under the Inflation Reduction Act, the agency’s stepped-up enforcement activity with respect to high wealth, high income...more
On August 12, 2024, OIG announced the results of an audit of payments made to hospitals for inpatient claims with the Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Groups (MS-DRGs) that require ninety-six hours of consecutive...more
One could forgive the healthcare industry for thinking someone drove Doc Brown’s DeLorean time machine through One First Street when it awoke on Friday, June 28, to a blast from the past....more
Hospitals and other providers should brace for recoupment of possibly hundreds of millions of dollars they were reportedly overpaid for services provided under the COVID-19 uninsured program (UIP) in the wake of new audit...more
Discover today's best practices for your role in healthcare compliance oversight - The Office of Inspector General of Health and Human Services expects healthcare board members, board audit/compliance committee members,...more
As part of our ongoing series on SECURE 2.0, this post discusses three significant changes to corrections of common retirement plan errors: (1) New rules for correcting overpayments, (2) expansion of the Self-Correction...more
Every Medicare provider should understand the Medicare administrative appeals process. Providers are entitled to be reimbursed for their services and want to keep those reimbursements safe from audits. However, if Medicare...more
Government agency audits focused on Medicare, Medicaid, and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) compliance can result in substantial losses for pharmacies. Each pharmacy is audited the same way it is done with other similarly...more
Private and government payers are initiating more medical practice audits, and that trend is likely to continue. In order to successfully navigate the process, providers should prepare in advance to meet the audit challenge. ...more
In the July 13, 2022 issue of the New York State Register, the New York State Office of Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) published a proposed regulation that it will likely adopt this fall. The proposed regulation will add...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Revenue Procedure 2021-30, which provides an updated version of the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS). EPCRS is the IRS’s comprehensive program for plan sponsors to...more
Plan sponsors and other administrators of eligible retirement plans must ensure that these plans are operated properly in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Internal Revenue Code, including the applicable plan...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) made important changes to the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) in Revenue Procedure 2021-30 that are helpful for plan sponsors as they expand the ability of plan sponsors...more
On July 16, 2021, the IRS released updated Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) guidance for Plan corrections in the form of Rev. Proc. 2021-30. The changes affect the three programs offered by the IRS for...more
Zone Program Integrity Contractors (ZPICs) and Unified Program Integrity Contractors (UPICs) are federal contractors who work under the direction of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to uncover fraudulent...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 30, no. 17 (May 3, 2021) - In a new provider compliance audit, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) said Visiting Nurse Association of Maryland (VNA) received overpayments of $2.1...more
Last week, HHS released eleven modified Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding payments distributed to providers via the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund. The FAQs cover audits and overpayments, sharing funds with...more
Over the last 25 years, I have assisted healthcare providers as a lawyer and as a compliance professional with handling routine overpayment matters, internal and external billing investigations, and fraud and abuse matters. ...more
Hospice Audits Series Audits are a fact of life for hospices—it’s not a matter of “if” a hospice will be audited, but “when.” The alphabet soup of audits has expanded, from UPICs to SMRCs, CPIs, TPEs and more. With the...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 43 (December 7, 2020) - In a new provider compliance audit, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) said The Palace at Home, a for-profit home health care agency (HHA) in Miami,...more
In its November 2020 Work Plan update, OIG announced it will begin auditing short stay inpatient hospital claims under the Two Midnight Rule, and when appropriate, recommend overpayment collections. OIG does not specify the...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 30 (August 24, 2020) - Mission Home Health of San Diego Inc. was overpaid $61,718 in 2015 and 2016, which was extrapolated to $5.9 million, according to the latest Medicare home health...more