On December 11, 2024, the Texas Medicaid Agency filed suit against CMS in Federal District Court in Austin to fight an $83 million disallowance of Medicaid payments made to hospital providers in the Austin area between 2014...more
Our firm is seeing an uptick in Medicare demand letters for the recovery of overpayment for skin substitutes, such as WoundFixTM, Biobrane, Dermagraft®, AmnioBand®, or AlloPatch®, used in the treatment of wounds. CMS auditors...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 7 (February 24, 2020) - Guardian Elder Care Holdings Inc., which operates more than 50 skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, and its related...more
With the introduction of RACs, ZPICs, and UPICs, the administrative process for Medicare payment disputes has resulted in three to five year delays in adjudicating claims while providers are faced with almost certain...more
On October 26, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would significantly alter the risk adjustment data validation (RADV) methodology that applies to Medicare...more
Recent opinions by the Fifth Circuit, the Northern and Southern Districts of Texas, and the District of South Carolina offer hope to providers seeking relief from substantial monetary recoupments during the Medicare appeals...more
Providers and suppliers who have been assessed overpayments for Medicare services are entitled, by statute, to a stay of recoupment while the provider or supplier’s appeal is pending – but only at the first two levels of...more
Medicare’s implementation of post-payment review through private contractors who are overly aggressive in denying payments, combined with a severe backlog of cases in queue for hearing before an Administrative Law Judge...more