Industry Note:
CMS Reexamines Takebacks For Incarcerated Patients
Published on Fri Jul 26, 2013
If you’ve encountered strange Medicare payment recoveries because your patients were supposedly incarcerated, hold on — there may be a mistake. "Medicare identified previously paid claims that contain a date of service partially or fully overlapping a period when a beneficiary was apparently incarcerated based on information CMS receives from the Social Security Administration," the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...]