A move is afoot to up the stakes yet again in the ongoing campaign against health care fraud.
The target: providers who play fast and loose with the Medicaid program.
While the feds collected over $1.3 billion in health-care fraud recoveries in fiscal year 2001, a mere $43 million came from Medicaid cases, according to a new report sponsored by Taxpayers Against Fraud. In other words, collections from fraudulent Medicare providers or contractors were over 20 times the amounts recovered from their Medicaid counterparts, says the report, titled "Reducing Medicaid Fraud: The Potential of the False Claims Act...
To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement.
Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations — and onboard your team — with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI's Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement Alert will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, payer policies, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.
Current newsletters added each month
Fully searchable archives - over 4200 articles
ALL years/issues back to 2003 organized by year and issue
Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
Code Information pages link back to related articles
Access to this feature is available in the following products: