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Beginning on or after January 1, 2020, the amount in controversy needed by Medicare providers will change as follows: $170 for Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) hearings. (2019 – $160) $1,670 for judicial review (2019 – $1,630) The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) every year announces annual adjustments to the amount in controversy threshold
Read MoreFlorida health care providers that provide services to Medicaid recipients are likely, at some point, to receive an audit of their claims submitted to the Medicaid program for reimbursement. Some providers will, for any number of reasons, receive a preliminary audit report detailing the Agency for Health Care Administration’s (Agency) findings as well as setting
Read MoreHealth care providers are increasingly seeing request for records from all types of payors including but not limited Medicaid, Medicare and commercial insurance providers. The basis for receiving a requests for records could be as a result on any number of reasons, including compliance, aberrant billing practices or as a result of a ZPIC audit
Read MoreCMS sought recovery of an alleged overpayment in excess of $730,000 from a diagnostic laboratory, upon the conclusion and recommendation of Safeguard Services (SGS) to deny all claims submitted for 3,006 Medicare beneficiaries. Mr. Gaitan and Mr. Suarez, of our health care practice group, appealed the overpayment claim through the reconsideration (second level appeal),
Read MoreCMS has announced that it will postpone its Recovery Audit (RAC) Prepayment Review demonstration project that would have held up payments to hospitals until the Medicare RAC reviews the claim to ensure that the provider complied with all Medicare payment rules. The Medicare RAC Prepayment Review demonstration called for the RACs to conduct prepayment review of claims for 15 procedures that historically result in high rates of improper payments. Many doctors were unhappy with the proposed program, especially cardiologists, who would be most affected since 11 of the 15 procedures identified for Medicare RAC prepayment review affect cardiologists.
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