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OIG audits: Poor hospital billing controls lead to $1M Medicare overpayments
Medicare overpaid Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis and Indiana University Health in Indianapolis more than a million dollars combined because the two organizations lacked adequate controls to prevent billing errors, according to the OIG.
OIG: Weak Medicaid claims data fails to recover overpayments
Missing or inaccurate Medicaid billing data is holding back contractors from pinpointing providers overpaid by Medicaid and therefore hindering recoveries, the Office of Inspector General reaffirmed
Hospitals audited for Medicare overpayments
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital overbilled Medicare for $659,000 because the Washington, D.C., hospital didn't adequately control billing and coding of claims or didn't fully understand
Hospitals retrain staff on Medicare compliance after OIG audits
Two more reports from the Office of Inspector General last week reveal that hospitals not understanding billing requirements led to Medicare overpayments at Bay Medical Center in Panama City, Fla.,
OIG: Nursing homes ill-prepared for disasters
Nursing homes are not prepared to handle disasters, such as hurricanes, floods and wild fires, as much as they should be, according to an Office of Inspector General report , released Friday. In site
Brigham and Women's overbilled Medicare $1.5M
Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital received a million and half dollars in overpayments because the hospital didn't fully understand Medicare billing requirements, the Office of Inspector General
OIG: CMS missing accurate Medicare error data
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should include appeals decisions from the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) program when it calculates reported errors, the Office of Inspector
OIG: Home health claims add up to $432M improper Medicare payments
Home health agencies submitted 22 percent of claims in error for unnecessary medical services or for incorrect coding in 2008. That adds up to $432 million in improper Medicare payments, according to
Inadequate training, staff errors lead to Medicare overpayments at Jefferson, other hospitals
Hospitals are chalking up Medicare overpayments to inadequate training and inadvertent errors in three recent audits by the Office of the Inspector General, released last month. For example, Thomas
OIG: Home health has 'limited' oversight, reporting
Home health agencies are not meeting all federal reporting requirements and have "limited" oversight from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Office of the Inspector General said in
