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NewsProviders stress over looming Medicare prepayment audits
Even though the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has delayed them, hospitals and physicians still are worried about looming prepayment reviews of Medicare claims in a governmental Read more...
Hospitals worried about Medicare RAC prepayment audits
Hospitals and other providers are concerned about the administrative burden that comes along with the administration's crackdown on improper payments. Through new pilots, Medicare will conduct Read more...
Family doctor reaped more than $2M in Medicare payments
While most doctors aren't getting rich off Medicare payments, a few are. One of the best-paid family-medicine physicians in the Medicare system pulled in more than $2 million in 2008 from Medicare. Read more...
Big bad Medicare audits, or, being put on the RAC
By this point, pretty much everyone in the industry is aware that Medicare is stepping up the Recovery Audit Contractor program, under which contractors visit with providers and do a deep, hard audit Read more...
Medicare contractor changes slow payment for some doctors
In theory, the changes CMS is making to its network of reimbursement contractor firms were supposed to make things easier for doctors. The agency is in the process of replacing a ragtag group of Read more...
CMS says new system will avoid payments using dead doctors' names
While doubtless embarrassed by the revelation that crooks have been profiting handsomely billing Medicare using dead doctors, CMS has a system in place to end the practice. That, at least, is what Read more...
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