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Heart Device Failure: Medicare Spent $1.5B Over 10 Years To Replace Defective Implants
Medicare paid at least $1.5 billion over a decade to replace seven types of defective heart devices, a government watchdog says. The devices apparently failed for thousands of senior patients. Continue reading
Via: OIG Continues its Focus on GIP Abuse – What Hospice Providers Need to Know
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector Genera l(OIG) issued a report on hospice billing for general inpatient care (GIP). According to the OIG, hospices billed Medicare for GIP inappropriately in one-third of stays in 2012, … Continue reading
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Tagged cms inpatient only, hospice, medicare inpatient, OIG, oig report
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“Finally Friday!” Extrapolation of Medical Necessity by the OIG
This session was recorded on Friday, June 21, 2013. Today’s show is a walk down into the rabbit hole… the rabbit hole that is Extrapolation… We look into a case where the OIG uses extrapolation to do some strange estimations … Continue reading
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Tagged CMS, extrapolation, frank cohen, medical necessity, OIG, statistical audit
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