Posts Tagged ‘Medicare overpayments’
OIG Report: CMS Fails to Collect Millions in Overpayments
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) failed to collect a large portion of Medicare overpayments identified over a two-year period between 2014 and 2016, according to an audit conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General. According to the watchdog agency, of $498 million in Medicare overpayments identified…
Read MoreCMS looks to formalize six-year lookback period for Medicare self-referral disclosures
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid recently published a notice proposing revisions to its self-referral disclosure protocol (SRDP). The SRDP allows healthcare providers and suppliers to self-disclose actual or potential violations of the physician self-referral statute, or Stark Law. Under the proposal, healthcare providers who use the SRDP will have to provide the agency with…
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