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Dentons

Ep. 32 – An Easy Audit Tip to Help Avoid Overpayments

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Looking for a simple, easy-to-implement way to lower your risk of overpayments? We have one on this week’s podcast!...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference - November 7th - 9th, 8:55 am - 3:30 pm CST

Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us virtually at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 30, Number 8. News Briefs: March 2021

Report on Medicare Compliance 30, no. 8 (March 1, 2021) - According to a CMS spokesperson, “CMS has not yet determined when Targeted Probe and Educate reviews will resume.” Meanwhile, “CMS continues to temporarily pause...more

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Understanding Medicare

What does Medicare cover? What are the costs of Medicare? What happens if you forget to enroll for Medicare? Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people in the United States who are over the age of 65 or...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

Home Health Care Patients With Chronic Conditions Are Having Trouble Getting Medicare

Medicare is supposed to provide up to 35 hours a week of home care to those who qualify, but many Medicare patients with chronic conditions are being wrongly denied such care, according to Kaiser Health News. For a variety of...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Day 4 Notes on the 2018 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference

San Francisco (January 11, 2018) – The final day of the 2018 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference gave us food for thought about the topic of healthcare navigation, as well as updates on the home health sector. Post-acute has...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

OIG Releases 2017 Work Plan

On November 10, 2016, the Office of Inspector General (“the OIG”) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“DHHS”) is charged with ensuring the integrity of more than 100 programs administered by DHHS, including...more

King & Spalding

MedPAC Publishes Report to Congress on 2017 Policies, Recommends Payment Reforms and Cuts to Part B Payments to Hospitals for 340B...

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On March 15, 2016, MedPAC submitted its 2016 annual report to Congress on Medicare payment policies for 2017. In the Report, MedPAC makes a number of recommendations to Congress pertaining to payment under Medicare...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Recent OIG Audits of Home Health and Hospice Surveys May Signal Increased Scrutiny on Worker Qualifications

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Recent audits by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) conclude that state survey agencies in a number of states and a leading national accrediting agency serving the home health and...more

McDermott Will & Emery

House Passes Bill Requiring Post-Acute Providers to Collect Patient Assessment Data

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The House recently passed its version of The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 (H.R. 4994/S. 2553), which would require various post-acute providers, including inpatient rehabilitation...more

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