The Medicare system may never collect more than $543 million in overpayments made in 2010, a federal inspector general’s report released Tuesday shows, because Medicare entered only a summary of …
On June 25, 2013, the Senate Committee on Finance heard testimony from hospital representatives and a recovery audit contractor (RAC) representative regarding burdensome audit procedures. RACs were created to identify …
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recommends that CMS review and revise the replacement schedule for CPAP supplies in a report published today (June 26). The OIG studied the replacement …
In a June 21 letter to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Reps. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., and Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, call on the agency to investigate the possibility that …
The OIG recently issued a report, found at www.kslaw.com, concerning the potential financial impact to Medicare Part A if CMS established a hospital transfer payment policy for early discharges to …
The Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) of the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) has issued a revised version of its Provider Self-Disclosure Protocol (“Updated SDP”), dated April 17, …
