Affordable Care Act, Overpayment, Medicaid

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

Foley & Lardner LLP on 7/16/2024

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

CMS Proposes Changes to Medicaid DSH Third-Party Payer Rule

King & Spalding on 3/2/2023

On February 24, 2023, CMS issued a proposed rule updating its Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) program regulations as a result of legislative changes made by the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) of 2021....more

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

Bricker Graydon LLP on 7/12/2021

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

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

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C. on 8/23/2017

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

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

Alston & Bird on 9/12/2016

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

60-Day Overpayment FCA Enforcement Action Results in $2.95 Million Settlement

King & Spalding on 8/30/2016

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

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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 7/14/2016

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

A&B Healthcare Week in Review

Alston & Bird on 4/21/2016

I. REGULATIONS, NOTICES, & GUIDANCE - On April 15, 2016, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a proposed rule entitled, “Applications for Approval and Combinations of Active Ingredients Under Consideration for...more

Recent Cases Involving 60-Day Overpayment Rule Should Put Healthcare Providers on Alert

Lowndes on 10/1/2015

Two recent federal court cases show that the federal government intends to vigorously enforce the so-called “60-day Rule” for the return of overpayments enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act (the “ACA”) even though the...more

The 60 Day Rule — Identification and Knowing Avoidance

Ballard Spahr LLP on 8/26/2015

On August 3, 2015, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an opinion and order in Kane v. Healthfirst, Inc., et al.[1] that provides the first judicial interpretation of the requirement...more

Federal Court Rejects Health System's Efforts to Dismiss 60-Day Rule Suit

Robinson & Cole LLP on 8/21/2015

On August 3, 2015, the United States District Court in the Southern District of New York issued a long-awaited opinion and order rejecting a motion to dismiss filed by the defendants in U.S. ex rel. Kane v. Continuum Health...more

Court Imposes Potentially Unworkable Burden on Providers Under ACA's Report and Return Rule

Baker Donelson on 8/20/2015

In Kane ex rel. U.S. v. Healthfirst, Inc., the federal district court for the Southern District of New York (District Court or Court) provided on August 3 the first and long-awaited interpretation as to when a health care...more

Federal District Court Interprets 60-Day Overpayment Rule Trigger

King & Spalding on 8/18/2015

In an eagerly anticipated decision issued on August 3, 2015, in an order denying the defendant hospitals’ motion to dismiss, the Southern District of New York became the first court to interpret and define the extent of a...more

When an Overpayment Becomes a False Claims Act Issue: Explaining the First Judicial Interpretation of the 60-Day Rule

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 8/14/2015

On August 3, 2015, Judge Edgardo Ramos of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued the first judicial opinion addressing when a health care provider has “identified” a Medicare or Medicaid...more

Kane and the “60-Day Rule”: The Unforgiving World of Medicare and Medicaid Overpayments

BakerHostetler on 8/14/2015

The Southern District of New York has spoken on one of the first issues to confront those seeking compliance with the new “60-day rule” under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and it does not bode well for defendant hospitals...more

Fasten Your Seat Belts: District Court Says “Failure to Act Quickly Enough” May Violate 60-Day Refund Rule

Foley & Lardner LLP on 8/12/2015

A New York Federal District Court issued an Opinion and Order, on August 3, 2015, in a closely-watched False Claims Act (FCA) case, Kane v. Healthfirst, Inc. The Court refused to dismiss the whistleblower complaint in which...more

FCA 60-Day Repayment Provision Runs from Discovery of Potential Overpayment

Holland & Knight LLP on 8/12/2015

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued the first decision directly addressing when an overpayment is “identified” for purposes of starting the 60-day repayment clock under the federal False...more

The Clock’s Running Fast: SDNY Is First to Interpret “Identification” Under the FCA’s “60-Day Rule” for Government Overpayments

Epstein Becker & Green on 8/11/2015

On August 3, 2015, in United States ex rel. Kane v. Healthfirst, Inc., et al., No. 1:11-cv-02325 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 3, 2015), the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued the first reported...more

Blog: First Court Decision Interpreting the Overpayment Rule Issued This Week

Cooley LLP on 8/10/2015

Earlier this week, a key decision denying defendants’ motion to dismiss was issued in the case, Kane v. Healthfirst Inc., et al. and United States v. Continuum Health Partners Inc., et al. (case no. 1:11-cv-02325, S.D.N.Y.)....more

In Closely Watched Case, Federal Court Upholds the Government’s Position on Provider Mandate to Report and Return Medicare and...

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 8/7/2015

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”), signed into law on March 23, 2010, included a provision (the “Report and Refund Mandate”), broadly requiring health care providers, suppliers, Part D plans and managed...more

First Court Opinion on When an Overpayment is “Identified” for Purposes of the 60-Day Repayment Law

Morgan Lewis on 8/6/2015

The court’s interpretation complicates the already difficult task providers face in having sufficient time to assess and quantify potential overpayments. An August 3 decision in United States v. Continuum Health Partners...more

Ignorance Is Not Bliss: The 60-Day Clock under the ACA’s “Return and Report Rule” Can Start Ticking Well Before the Exact Amount...

Cozen O'Connor on 8/6/2015

On August 3, 2015, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York ruled that the United States’ and state of New York’s complaints in intervention can move forward against a group of hospitals, under the federal False...more

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