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Feds Look at Hospitals’ PRF Payments Over Balance Billing Concerns

Published on Thu Feb 03, 2022

Hospitals that received CARES Act Provider Relief Fund (PRF) payments were required to follow certain billing rules for COVID-19 patients as part of their funding agreements — but some didn’t and now the feds are looking into that. Lowdown: The HHS Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) new Work Plan item, W-00-22-35878, focuses on the intersection of hospitals’ compliance with the [...]
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