AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice - Reimbursement Audits and Appeals
Podcast: Direct Access Laboratory Testing: Reimbursement & Compliance – Diagnosing Health Care
Podcast: Owner's Outlook: Maximize and Safeguard Reimbursement Through Design - Diagnosing Health Care
HealthLaw HotSpot - A Look at Alternative Reimbursement Models in Value-Based Care
The Important and Thriving Role of Private Medical Practices
Value-Based Care and Its Impact on Providers
The Year Ahead: Litigation Hot Spots at a Glance
Teleworking: Amazing or amazingly complex?
(Video) Reimbursement of College Tuition and Fees After COVID-19
Value-based health care: compliance infrastructure
K&L Gates Triage: 340B Eligibility - Hospital Covered Entities
Value-based health care: fraud & abuse laws
Value-based health care: issues for pharmaceutical companies
Condo Water Invasion: Potential Medical Liability?
CMS estimates that between 2017 and 2021, Medicare Part A improperly paid $23.9 billion for inpatient hospital stays, with $7.8 billion attributable to short stays that did not qualify for Medicare Part A. On June 13, 2024,...more
Recently, Optum Behavioral Health (“Optum,” the services division for UnitedHealth Group) has initiated overpayment recovery actions against numerous licensed clinical social workers (“LCSWs”) across the country for services...more
On 5 March 2024, in an issue of first impression in the District of South Carolina, a district court judge overseeing judicial review of a final agency decision in a Medicare claims appeal ordered the Government to complete...more
On December 27, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would, among other things, amend the existing regulations for Medicare Parts A, B, C, and D regarding the standard for an...more
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
On August 17, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a bulletin (Bulletin) to states addressing potentially inappropriate cost-based proposals and practices related to governmental ambulance...more
On June 3, 2021, the Seventh Circuit upheld a decision by the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois to dismiss a home health agency’s lawsuit against a Medicare integrity contractor for temporarily...more
Breaking News- New Leadership at the FTC- •President Joseph R. Biden designated Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter as Acting Chair of the FTC . •As Commissioner, Chairwoman...more
In Reed v. Exel Logistics, Inc., No. 17-0864, 2018 WL 2769041 (W. Va. June 6, 2018), the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia clarified the circumstances necessary for an employer to claim overpayment of temporary total...more
In Gotham Insurance Co. v. Warren E&P Inc., the Texas Supreme Court recently addressed an age-old and often-asked question: Can an insurer recoup money paid to its insured when it later learns it overpaid? The answer:...more
As part of the Affordable Care Act, Congress outlined the process for providers to return Medicare and Medicaid overpayments. In 2012, CMS proposed the 60-day Refund Rule, as it is commonly known, requiring Medicare providers...more
In a decision handed down on July 23, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the use by CMS of outside contractors to determine whether a home health agency’s reimbursement claims had exhibited a...more
Recovery Audit Contractors (“RACs”) and other Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) contractors are charged with identifying overpayments made by Medicare to healthcare providers. However, with the increase in RAC...more
Hospitals are under intense scrutiny. The federal government knows that one sure way to reduce healthcare costs is to get hospitals to lower their costs. Hospitals feel the pinch given the need to generate revenue but know...more
The HHS OIG has conducted a nationwide audit of the use and reimbursement of Herceptin (also known as trastuzumab), a Medicare-covered drug used to treat metastatic breast cancer, and has concluded in three audits released in...more
A unanimous Supreme Court has issued its opinion in Sebelius v. Auburn Regional Medical Center, No. 11-1231 (Jan. 22, 2013), rejecting a challenge by hospitals to Medicare's Supplemental Security Income ("SSI") fraction...more