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Interactive Map with Medicaid Fraud Control Units’ Statistical Data for FY 2010

Posted on October 14, 2011. Filed under: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), Health Care, HHS, HHS Updates, medicaid, Medicare, OIG | Tags: , , , , , , , |

1Investigations are defined as the total number of open investigations at the end of the fiscal year. 2 Recoveries are defined as the amount of money that defendants are required to pay as a result of a settlement, judgment, or prefiling settlement in criminal and civil cases and may not reflect actual collections. Recoveries may [...]

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Review of Medicare Outpatient Billing for Selected Drugs at Central Peninsula General Hospital (A-09-11-02033)

Posted on October 13, 2011. Filed under: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), Health Care, HHS, HHS Updates, medicaid, Medicare, OIG | Tags: , , , , , |

Contrary to Federal requirements, Central Peninsula General Hospital billed Medicare for the incorrect number of units of service of doxorubicin hydrochloride liposome and paclitaxel administered. As a result, Central Peninsula received overpayments totaling $99,000. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ How To Get All The Patient Referrals You Can Handle!!! As a health care provider you know that the majority [...]

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Review of Medicare Outpatient Billing for a Selected Drug at Madison Memorial Hospital (A-09-11-02051)

Posted on October 13, 2011. Filed under: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), Health Care, HHS, medicaid, Medicare, OIG | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Contrary to Federal requirements, Madison Memorial Hospital billed Medicare for the incorrect number of units of service of infliximab administered. As a result, Madison Memorial received overpayments totaling $32,000. http://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region9/91102051.asp _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ How To Get All The Patient Referrals You Can Handle!!! As a health care provider you know that the majority of your new patients [...]

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Monthly Recovery Act Report: August

Posted on October 13, 2011. Filed under: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), Health Care, HHS, HHS Updates, medicaid, Medicare, OIG | Tags: , , , , , , |

http://oig.hhs.gov/reports-and-publications/recovery/index.asp?FileName=201108_recovery_update.asp. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ How To Get All The Patient Referrals You Can Handle!!! As a health care provider you know that the majority of your new patients come from referrals from existing patients and other physician practices. How would you like to be able to send cards like these to your patients and referrals sources automatically [...]

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Advisory Opinion 11-15

Posted on October 11, 2011. Filed under: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), Health Care, HHS, HHS Updates, medicaid, Medicare, OIG | Tags: , , , , , , |

Advisory Opinion 11-15 (concerning a proposal under which physicians would invest in a company that would provide pathology laboratory management services to a third party.) http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/docs/advisoryopinions/2011/AdvOpn11-15.pdf ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ How To Get All The Patient Referrals You Can Handle!!! As a health care provider you know that the majority of your new patients come from referrals from [...]

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Fiscal Year 2012 Work Plan

Posted on October 6, 2011. Filed under: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), Health Care, HHS, HHS Updates, medicaid, Medicare, OIG | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

The Office of Inspector General’s ( OlG ) Work Plan sets forth various projects to be addressed during the fiscal year by the Office of Audit Services, Office of Evaluation and Inspections, Office of Investigations, and Office of Counsel to the Inspector General. The Work Plan includes projects planned in each of the Department’s major [...]

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LHC Group Inc. Added to Corporate Integrity Agreement List

Posted on October 6, 2011. Filed under: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), Health Care, HHS, HHS Updates, medicaid, Medicare, OIG | Tags: , , , , , , |

Corporate Integrity Agreements (CIAs), Certification of Compliance Agreements (CCAs) and Settlement Agreements with Integrity Provisions http://oig.hhs.gov/compliance/corporate-integrity-agreements/cia-documents.asp ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ How To Get All The Patient Referrals You Can Handle!!! As a health care provider you know that the majority of your new patients come from referrals from existing patients and other physician practices. How would you like [...]

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Unidentified and Unreported Federal Deficiencies in California’s Complaint Surveys of Nursing Homes (A-09-09-00114)

Posted on October 5, 2011. Filed under: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), Health Care, HHS, HHS Updates, medicaid, Medicare, OIG | Tags: , , , , , , , |

When conducting complaint surveys of nursing homes from 2006 through 2008, the California Department of Public Health, Licensing and Certification Division (the Division), did not always identify and report deficiencies for unmet Federal requirements related to those homes’ participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Contrary to Federal requirements, for 24 of 47 complaint surveys [...]

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Review of Medicaid Hospice Payments at Evercare Hospice & Palliative Care for State Fiscal Years 2007 Through 2009 (A-01-10-00012)

Posted on October 5, 2011. Filed under: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), Health Care, HHS, HHS Updates, medicaid, Medicare, OIG | Tags: , , , , , , , |

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Office of Medicaid (State agency), did not always make Medicaid payments to Evercare Hospice & Palliative Care (Evercare) in accordance with Federal and State requirements. Based on our sample results, we estimated that the State agency incorrectly reimbursed Evercare $1.3 million ($669,000 Federal share) for the [...]

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Access to Mental Health Services at Indian Health Service and Tribal Facilities (OEI-09-08-00580)

Posted on October 5, 2011. Filed under: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), Health Care, HHS, medicaid, Medicare, OIG | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Compared to other populations in the United States, American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) experience a disproportionately high rate of mental and behavioral health challenges and a high incidence of end stage renal disease. Eighty-two percent of tribal and IHS facilities provide some type of mental health service; however, the range of services is limited [...]

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