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Normally the old adage, “waste not, want not,” would be a reliable rule of thumb to live by. But when you’re trying to stay compliant with Medicare billing rules for drugs and supplies, wasting leftover medications is often the better idea -- as federal prosecutors recently showed a corner-cutting neurologist.
Scam artists are trying a new way to get people to hand over their personal information including bank account numbers: They're posing as officials of the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG).
Be on the lookout, fraudsters: The federal governent is bearing down hard on misappropriated Medicare funds. A new report shows that the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC), combining efforts of HHS and the Department of Justice (DOJ), returned $1.7 billion to the Medicare Trust Fund in 2016.
Perhaps human evolution someday will allow us to provide care to the souls of the deceased, but until that time comes, CMS had better shore up its claims allowances.

State and federal prosecutors just landed a big settlement on an overpayments case against a major hospital chain and associated companies -- and it shows that at least one court takes the 60-day repayment window very seriously. 

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