Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Enforcement:

MSP BLUES

The Department of Justice Feb. 11 partially intervened in a whistleblower suit accusing Pittsburgh, PA-based insurer Highmark Inc. of playing fast and loose with Medicare Secondary Payer rules — and demoting the woman charged with ensuring that the company complied with MSP requirements. The case was originally filed in 2000 by Elizabeth Drescher, a Highmark employee charged, according to the [...]
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