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5 states top Medicaid fraud list, States recover $1.7B
States recovered $1.7 billion through Medicaid fraud and patient abuse investigations and enforcements of civil and criminal cases, the Office of Inspector General reported last week. The Medicaid
OIG critiques deployment of Medicaid integrity contractors
The Department of Health & Human Services' Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concluded that Medicaid Integrity Contractors (MICs) are not being used to their full potential because they can
Bristol Hospital settles Stark violation claims
Bristol (Conn.) Hospital and Bristol Gastroenterology Associates agreed to pay $157,830 to settle allegations that they violated the Stark law and the False Claims Act by improperly billing Medicare,
CMS struggles to monitor Medicare contractors due to inaccurate data
Medicare contractors monitor hospitals and other healthcare organizations for fraud, but who monitors the contractors? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) does but ineffectively,
Hospital cites misunderstanding in $420K Medicare billing errors
A hospital's billing errors resulted in $420,000-worth of Medicare overpayments in a fourth of its claims over two years, according to an Office of Inspector General (OIG) report released this week.
CMS, OIG to relax self-referral, anti-kickback laws with ACO waivers
To the relief of many healthcare organizations that worried about the legal barriers to forming an accountable care organization (ACO), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the
Feds recover $1.84B from Medicaid fraud: 5 states top the list
The federal government has recovered more than $1.84 billion from Medicaid fraudsters in fiscal year 2010, according to Office of Inspector General (OIG) data updated this week. The recovery amount
OIG: HHS to target hospitals in continued fraud crackdown
It's no secret that federal officials have been on the warpath as of late, cracking down on healthcare fraud, abuses, and waste, hoping for (and recently achieving) millions in recovered Medicare and
Senate seeks investigation of physician-owned distributorships
Five Senators called on the Inspector General of the Health and Human Services to investigate surgeons who have ownership in medical device distributions that may violate anti-kickback statues,
Overbilling Medicare costs health system more than $780K
One of Kentucky's largest healthcare systems, Norton Healthcare, agreed last week to settle allegations that it overbilled Medicare by paying $782,842 to the federal government, the U.S. Attorney for
