Almost half of hospitals in the United States will be getting lower payments for Medicare patients due to their readmission history, according to an analysis reported in Kaiser Health News...Read More »
Earlier this summer, CMS resumed Medicare fee-for-service audits which had been suspended starting the end of March because of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE).Read More »
Some facilities that should have been penalized under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) weren’t and some that were probably shouldn’t have been, according to a new study...Read More »
$1.5 million. That’s the amount Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, California, incorrectly billed Medicare for inpatient and outpatient services between 2017 and 2019, according to an audit by the OIG...Read More »
