Medicare has continued to make overpayments for chronic care management services, and as a result, has cost the program and its beneficiaries millions of dollars in waste.
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) examined over 7.8 million claims from physicians and 240,00 claims from hospitals for chronic care management services...Arizona News
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) reviewed five Indian Health Services (IHS) hospitals last month and concluded they do not always follow necessary guidelines when prescribing and dispensing opioids to patients.
The audit was spurred by a national opioid epidemic that continues to be fueled by prescription opioids and a...Arizona News
Medicare Advantage has been dominating healthcare headlines, especially with the start of the annual enrollment period; it is no secret the Medicare alternative pulls monstrous profits, but their means are in question. A study conducted by the Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that MA...Arizona News
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently discovered $5.7 billion in unreasonable and unnecessary payments to inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) after a sample audit. The review was prompted by Medicare spending of about $7 billion on IRF stays in 2013, leading the OIG to question the payment system.
The OIG sampled...