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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPAC), also known as Obamacare, is a United States federal statute passed in March of 2010. The Act creates a nationwide insurance system and provides federal... more +
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Affordable Care Act Overpayments in the CY 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule: Implications for False Claims

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Stakeholders are continuing to analyze the implications of the mammoth proposed rule on “Medicare and Medicaid Programs: [Calendar Year (CY)] 2025 Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Changes to Part B...more

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Medicare Overpayments: CMS Proposes Regulation Establishing Six Month Suspended Deadline for 60-Day Refund Rule

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The 60-day Refund Rule, created by the 2010 Affordable Care Act, requires providers to report and return Medicare and Medicaid overpayments within 60 days of identifying them. See Section 1128J(d) of the Social Security Act,...more

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CMS Proposed Rule for Refunding Overpayments Would Align With False Claims Act “Knowledge” Standard

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a rule late last year to harmonize the standard it would apply for providers to identify and refund overpayments with the “knowledge” standard under the False Claims...more

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Will CMS’s Proposed Rule on “Identified Overpayments” Increase Reverse FCA Cases?

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On December 27, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule which, in part, seeks to amend the existing regulations for Medicare Parts A, B, C, and D regarding the standard for when an...more

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Investigations Newsletter: New DC Circuit Ruling Impacts Medicare Advantage Plans and FCA Enforcement

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In a unanimous opinion, the DC Circuit reversed a successful challenge brought by UnitedHealth (United) and other Medicare Advantage insurers to vacate a Medicare Advantage Overpayment Rule. The Overpayment Rule requires that...more

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D.C. Circuit Rejects UnitedHealthcare’s Challenge to the Medicare Advantage 60-Day Overpayment Rule

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The D.C. Circuit Court overturned UnitedHealthcare’s victory in the lower court that resulted in vacatur of the Medicare Advantage 60-day overpayment rule (the Overpayment Rule). Last week, the D.C. Circuit Court held that...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

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

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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

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Skilled nursing facility operator settles false claims case involving allegations that the company failed to report and return...

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On June 29, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a settlement with California skilled nursing facility operator Plum Healthcare Group LLC and facility Azalea Holdings LLC dba McKinley Park Care Center (Plum) to...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Recent FCA Cases Emphasize the Importance of Diligently Addressing Potential Overpayments

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A common feature of False Claims Act (FCA) litigation is the pursuit of liability under the FCA’s so-called “reverse” false claims provision, 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(G).  Reverse false claims liability applies when a person or...more

Ruder Ware

Apply the 60-Day Rule to Medicaid Overpayments

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The Affordable Care Act requires any person who has received an overpayment from certain defined government health programs to report and return the overpayment within 60 days after the overpayment is identified. If an...more

Jones Day

D.C. District Court Vacates 60-Day Medicare Advantage Overpayment Rule

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The Situation: In 2016, several Medicare Advantage ("MA") organizations challenged a 2014 final rule promulgated by the Center for Medicare Services ("CMS") that broadly subjected MA organizations to potential liability under...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Court Nixes CMS’s Negligence Standard for Applying False Claims Act Liability for Failure to Report and Return Overpayments

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In what has become widely known as the “60-day rule,” the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires that Medicare and Medicaid overpayments be reported and returned within the later of the date which is 60 days after the date on...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CMS’ Medicare Advantage Overpayment Rule: Arbitrary, Capricious, and Vacated

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In a key case being watched by the industry, Judge Collyer of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued an opinion today granting UnitedHealthcare’s Motion for Summary Judgment in UnitedHealthcare...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

Reminder: Medical Providers Must Be Attentive to Credit Balances and Other Overpayments

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It has now been a number of years since the enactment of Section 6402(a) of the Affordable Care Act ("ACA"), which requires among other things that any recipient of a Medicare or Medicaid overpayment report and return it...more

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Preventing Overpayments from becoming False Claims

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Overpayments to healthcare providers receiving Medicare reimbursements are at risk of civil and criminal enforcement action if not attuned to a particular reimbursement rule and diligent in compliance with the rule’s...more

Ruder Ware

Repayment and Self Disclosure of Known Overpayments

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The 60-day repayment rule adopted as part of the Affordable Care Act is a very strong arrow in the quiver of federal enforcement agencies. Under the 60-day rule a known overpayment can become a False Claim if it is not repaid...more

King & Spalding

D.C. District Court Allows Part C Plan to Continue with Challenge of Overpayment Rule

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On March 31, 2017, Judge Rosemary Collyer of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia held that plaintiffs UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company et al. (“United”) had standing to challenge CMS’s overpayment...more

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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

Alston & Bird

Raising Kane: CMS’s 60-Day Rule Commands More Than Treble Damages

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In August 2015, we published a client advisory on the first judicial opinion interpreting the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) “60-day overpayment rule,” which requires providers to “report and return” an overpayment of Medicare...more

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Health Law Pulse - September 2016

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DOJ, NY AG REACH SETTLEMENT WITH HOSPITALS IN LANDMARK 60 - DAY RULE CASE - On August 24, 2016, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and the New York State attorney general announced a $2.95 million...more

King & Spalding

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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Overpayment Rule and the Implied False Claims Theory: “What You Don’t Know Can Still Hurt You”

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In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) enacted new rules governing overpayments made by the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Under these rules, providers have 60 days from the date that the overpayment has been identified to...more

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CMS Finalizes Rule on Reporting and Returning Medicare Overpayments

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The Affordable Care Act (sometimes referred to as Obamacare) included a requirement for providers to report and return all Medicare and Medicaid overpayments within 60 days of identification. Although this requirement has...more

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Next Steps: Helping Your Organization Implement the New Medicare Overpayment Rule - Part I

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On February 12, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a final rule that explains the requirements for providers and suppliers reporting and returning overpayments under Medicare Parts A & B (the...more

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CMS Clarifies 60-Day Reporting Requirements For Medicare Parts A & B

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has clarified the reporting requirements and lookback period for overpayments from Medicare Parts A and B in Final Rule 6037 (“Final Rule”), issued by CMS on February 12,...more

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