This week’s Medicare updates include a fact sheet on opioid treatment programs, revisions to skilled nursing facility cost reports, the CY 2020 update to the DMEPOS fee schedule, and more!
Carolinas Hospital in Florence, South Carolina, received $431,757 in Medicare overpayments for incorrectly billed inpatient and outpatient services, according to an Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit report released November 26. Based on the sample, the OIG estimates the hospital may have received at least $3.4 million in overpayments.
This week’s Medicare updates include the implementation transmittal for the 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, two Special Edition MLN Matters articles on the implementation of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model, home health billing compliance information, and more!
In many companies, the compliance officer is the first to become aware of a potential compliance problem that could lead to civil or criminal liability. A best practice is to give the compliance officer the authority to conduct internal investigations.
The application of attorney-client privilege is somewhat more complicated in situations where the client is a corporation. Although corporations are entitled to the same protection of confidentiality as noncorporate clients, the application of the privilege often turns on which corporate officials and employees sufficiently personify the corporation as a client.
