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MAC Collects Half-Million In Cap Overpayments With Plans For More

Published on Fri Aug 13, 2021

Thanks to a federal watchdog agency, one HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor is now collecting more hospice per-beneficiary cap-related overpayments. When it examined cap year 2017, the HHS Office of Inspector found that Palmetto GBA “accurately calculated cap amounts but did not collect all cap overpayments or pay refunds associated with lookback years due to two internal policies,” says a new [...]
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