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Medicare officials underestimated improper Payments - Report Reuters - 48 minutes ago Aug 26 (Reuters) - Medicare officials had undervalued the amount of improper Payments made for medical equipment in 2006 because it failed to review sufficient medical documents, according to a government report. Medicare Ignored Its Claims Policy, Audit Says Wall Street Journal Report Faults Medicare Audits Washington Post Bradenton Herald - WZTV - The Associated Press - MiamiHerald.com all 127 news articles ...
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(Reuters) - Medicare officials had undervalued the amount of improper Payments made for medical equipment in 2006 because it failed to review sufficient medical documents, according to a government report. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 1 day ago
In early July, the Senate approved a House-approved bill (HR 6331) that would delay a 10.6 percent cut in Medicare physician Payments and provide a 1.1 percent Medicare payment increase next year, despite a presidential veto threat. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 11 days ago
By Patrick Yoest, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. Sen. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 31 days ago
In June, legislation to delay a 10.6 percent cut in Medicare physician Payments - which was scheduled to take effect on July 1 - was approved by the House, despite a presidential vote threat. ... Source: commonlaw.findlaw.com --- 11 days ago
A review of Medicare claims for medical and prosthetic equipment in 2006 found that improper or erroneous Payments were almost four times more common than the federal government estimated. The report on the Medicare claims error rate , released on August 22, found a 28.9 percent error rate in the review of paid Medicare claims for medical equipment, prosthetics, and orthotics in 2006, as opposed to the 7.5 percent rate reported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services . The report was issued by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General Daniel Levinson, and is titled Medical Review of Claims for the Fiscal Year 2006 Comprehensive Error Rate Testing Program . The Washington Post reports that the improper Medicare Payments discovered in the audit "include not only fraudulent claims, but also those without sufficient documentation and those for goods deemed not medically necessary." According to the Miami Herald , the HHS Inspector General's report was issued a few weeks after the newspaper published a series on corruption in regional medical equipment suppliers and HIV drug clinics, which "underscored Medicare's failure to root out fraudulent claims submitted to the health insurance program." Read the Report: Medical Review of Claims for the Fiscal Year 2006 Comprehensive Error Rate Testing Program [PDF file] Washington Post: Report Faults Medicare Audits Miami Herald: Inspector General Chastises Medicare on W ... Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 21 days ago
Some Medicare beneficiaries still are having incorrect amounts withheld from their Social Security checks for Medicare Advantage and Medicare prescription drug benefit premiums, but the programs have made significant improvements since 2006 in matching their databases to deduct the correct amounts, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report, ... Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 10 days ago
HHS Inspector General Daniel Levinson on Monday released a federal audit that found that Medicare officials underestimated the amount of incorrect Payments for durable medical equipment in 2006 and that the miscalculation was caused by the agency's failure to have auditors follow CMS' policy for checking claims, the Wall Street Journal reports (Zhang, Wall Street Journal, 8/26). ... Source: www.eurekalert.org --- 1 day ago
Private Medicare Advantage plans will be paid an average 12.4 percent more per enrollee in 2008 compared to what the same enrollee would have cost in the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund. ... Source: www.thebostonchannel.com --- 11 days ago
Medicare says it makes errors on 7.5 percent of claims for medical equipment. Inspectors say the rate is much higher. ... Source: www.cmwf.org --- 1 day ago
Private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will be paid an average 12.4 percent more per enrollee in 2008 compared to what the same enrollee would have cost in the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund. ... Source: www.healthcarefraudblog.com --- 11 days ago
Today, The New York Times reported that “Medicare’s top officials said in 2006 that they had reduced the number of fraudulent and improper claims paid by the agency, keeping billions of dollars out of the hands of people trying to game the system. “But according to a confidential draft of a federal inspector general’s report, those claims of success, which earned Medicare wide praise from lawmakers, were misleading.” ... Source: www.hfma.org --- 8 days ago
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General Daniel Levinson on Aug. 25 released a federal audit that found that Medicare officials underestimated the amount of incorrect Payments for durable medical equipment (DME) in 2006 and that the miscalculation was caused by the agency’s failure to have auditors follow CMS’s policy for checking claims. The HHS audit reviewed a sample of 363 Medicare DME claims to determine whether auditing contractor AdvanceMed had found all improper Payments. CMS had estimated a payment error rate of 7.5 percent, or about $700 million in improper Payments. However, the HHS audit found an “error rate” of nearly 29 percent for the sample of DME claims. The report cited 20 payment errors identified by the Medicare audit and 73 errors the contractor had not identified. However, the HHS Office of Inspector General cautioned against applying these findings to the entire Medicare DME program because the sample was not entirely random. The report faults Medicare officials for allowing AdvanceMed to conduct the review without fully documenting claims from suppliers. According to the audit, more incorrect Payments would have been identified if Medicare had told the contractor to follow the agency’s written policy. In a cover letter for the report, Levinson wrote that Medicare auditors should check a wider range of records related to claims, including physician records and other medical documents verif ... Source: www.seniorsapprove.com --- 18 days ago
medical-supplies and equipment for the home assistance using Medicare or medicaid Payments and choices to shop locally, through the mail or on the internet to select a good medical equipment supply ... Source: www.neurotodayonline.com --- 21 days ago
Page: 5 DOI: 10.1097/01.NT.0000333569.81361.5b Authors: STUMP, ELIZABETH ... Source: www.billpeckham.com --- 9 days ago
By Peter Laird, MD RenalWeb posted a link to an article titled Practicable Frequent Hemodialysis: A Proposal to Meet the Needs of Patients and the Requirements of Medicare that offers a proposal for Medicare funding of a payed incentive for... ... Source: www.miamiherald.com --- 2 days ago
In July, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations revealed Medicare's latest embarrassment: significant Payments for medical services ordered by dead doctors -- $60 million to $92 million such claims paid between 2000 and 2007. Some doctors had been dead for more than 10 years. ... Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 7 days ago
Improvements in the prevention of catheter-related infections will be a prime focus at the annual conference of the Association for Vascular Access (AVA) in Sept. The conference comes on the eve of major changes in Medicare that will eliminate Payments to hospitals that fail to prevent certain hospital-acquired infections. AVA will hold its 22nd Annual Scientific Meeting Sept. 11-14 in Savannah, Ga. ... Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 8 days ago
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Tuesday sent a letter to acting CMS Administrator Kerry Weems demanding a "full accounting" of how the agency underestimated the extent of improper Medicare Payments for durable medical equipment, the Miami Herald reports (Weaver, Miami Herald, 8/27). ... Find more results for Medicare Payments on RSSMicro.com |
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Reuters - Medicare officials had undervalued the amount of improper Payments made for medical equipment in 2006 because it failed to review sufficient medical documents, according to a government report. ...