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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

OIG: COVID-19 UIP Overpaid Providers $784M; HRSA Will Recoup Money

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

FCA Lawsuit Alleges Three Hospitals Were Overpaid PRF ‘High-Impact’ Money and Kept It

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 32, no 25 (July 2023) The former chief hospital executive of Bayonne Medical Center (BMC) in New Jersey has filed a False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit alleging the hospital and two others...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Hospital Settles FCA Case Filed by CO Over Modifiers; Make Sure People ‘Feel Heard’

Report on Medicare Compliance 30, no. 32 (September 13, 2021) - John Peter Smith (JPS) Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle false claims allegations in a case with a hot risk area, a...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Credible Information Is Heart of 60-Day Rule; OIG: Self-Disclosure Pauses the Clock

Report on Medicare Compliance 30, no. 28 (August 2, 2021) - When a hospital realized it had been billing for annual wellness visits without documentation of opioid and substance use screening, it wasn’t a heavy lift to...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 15. News Briefs: April 2020 #2

Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 15 (April 20, 2020) - Maury Regional Medical Center in Tennessee has agreed to pay $1.7 million to settle false claims allegations over MS-DRG coding, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for...more

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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

King & Spalding

Massachusetts District Court Allows FCA Lawsuit Alleging Hospital Overbilled for Double-Booked Surgeries Performed Without...

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On June 17, 2019, the U.S. District Court of the District of Massachusetts rejected Massachusetts General Hospital’s (MGH) request to dismiss a qui tam complaint alleging that the teaching hospital fraudulently overbilled...more

Baker Donelson

Update on First 60-Day Case

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A settlement was reached on August 23, 2016, in U.S. ex rel. Kane v. Healthfirst, Inc., et al., No. 11 CIV. 2325 (ER) (SDNY), a little over one year after the judge in that case issued the first judicial interpretation of the...more

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60-Day Overpayment FCA Enforcement Action Results in $2.95 Million Settlement

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On August 23, 2016, a New York hospital system settled False Claims Act (FCA) allegations that it violated the 60-day overpayment rule by improperly retaining Medicaid overpayments. The whistleblower alleged that three of the...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Health Law Insights Newsletter - Issue 7 - March 2016

McCarter & English, LLP’s Health Care Group presents Issue 7 of the Health Law Insights, which discusses the latest legal issues in the health care industry. NATIONAL - Providers’ Obligation to Report Medicare...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

The 60 Day Rule — Identification and Knowing Avoidance

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On August 3, 2015, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an opinion and order in Kane v. Healthfirst, Inc., et al.[1] that provides the first judicial interpretation of the requirement...more

Baker Donelson

District Court Issues First Decision Interpreting ACA's 60-day Rule

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The first case to interpret when the clock begins to run on the “60-Day Rule” did not go well for health care providers. On August 3rd, the Southern District of New York rejected defendants HealthFirst, Inc.’s and Continuum...more

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Court Imposes Potentially Unworkable Burden on Providers Under ACA's Report and Return Rule

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In Kane ex rel. U.S. v. Healthfirst, Inc., the federal district court for the Southern District of New York (District Court or Court) provided on August 3 the first and long-awaited interpretation as to when a health care...more

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Federal District Court Interprets 60-Day Overpayment Rule Trigger

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In an eagerly anticipated decision issued on August 3, 2015, in an order denying the defendant hospitals’ motion to dismiss, the Southern District of New York became the first court to interpret and define the extent of a...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

When an Overpayment Becomes a False Claims Act Issue: Explaining the First Judicial Interpretation of the 60-Day Rule

On August 3, 2015, Judge Edgardo Ramos of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued the first judicial opinion addressing when a health care provider has “identified” a Medicare or Medicaid...more

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Kane and the “60-Day Rule”: The Unforgiving World of Medicare and Medicaid Overpayments

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The Southern District of New York has spoken on one of the first issues to confront those seeking compliance with the new “60-day rule” under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and it does not bode well for defendant hospitals...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Fasten Your Seat Belts: District Court Says “Failure to Act Quickly Enough” May Violate 60-Day Refund Rule

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A New York Federal District Court issued an Opinion and Order, on August 3, 2015, in a closely-watched False Claims Act (FCA) case, Kane v. Healthfirst, Inc. The Court refused to dismiss the whistleblower complaint in which...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: First Court Decision Interpreting the Overpayment Rule Issued This Week

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Earlier this week, a key decision denying defendants’ motion to dismiss was issued in the case, Kane v. Healthfirst Inc., et al. and United States v. Continuum Health Partners Inc., et al. (case no. 1:11-cv-02325, S.D.N.Y.)....more

Balch & Bingham LLP

When Is An Overpayment “Identified?” The Answer Is In

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In a highly anticipated ruling in Kane ex rel United States, et al. v. Health First, Inc., et al., a New York federal judge has issued the first judicial interpretation of the sixty-day overpayment return provision in the...more

Morgan Lewis

First Court Opinion on When an Overpayment is “Identified” for Purposes of the 60-Day Repayment Law

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The court’s interpretation complicates the already difficult task providers face in having sufficient time to assess and quantify potential overpayments. An August 3 decision in United States v. Continuum Health Partners...more

Cozen O'Connor

Ignorance Is Not Bliss: The 60-Day Clock under the ACA’s “Return and Report Rule” Can Start Ticking Well Before the Exact Amount...

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On August 3, 2015, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York ruled that the United States’ and state of New York’s complaints in intervention can move forward against a group of hospitals, under the federal False...more

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SDNY Issues Groundbreaking Decision On False Claims Act Sixty-Day Rule

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Medicare and Medicaid providers have an obligation to refund overpayments from federal health care programs. The False Claims Act (“FCA”) imposes liability for any person who “knowingly conceals or knowingly and improperly...more

Alston & Bird

Important Developments on Overpayment Liability Under the False Claims Act

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On August 3, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued the first judicial opinion interpreting the Affordable Care Act’s “60-day overpayment rule,” which requires providers to “report and...more

Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP

Government demonstrates willingness to enforce Affordable Care Act provision that could cost providers millions of dollars

Under a little-known provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), healthcare providers could face millions of dollars in liability for failing to reimburse the government for overpayments in a timely...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

The Dark Side of Health Care Reform: The First “60-Day Rule” False Claims Act Case

The U.S. Department of Justice and New York State Attorney General’s Office recently intervened in a federal False Claims Act case in federal District Court based on allegations that a provider failed to report and refund an...more

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