The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has collected just a little more than half the $498 million in Medicare overpayments identified in eight-year-old audits, according to Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General, reports Healthcare Finance.
CMS had agreed to collect those overpayments, which were logged between October 2014 and December 2016. The agency claims it collected $272 million of those overpaid claims, but supporting documentation seemed to indicate it had only collected $120 million.
OIG added that CMS did not take corrective action in response to the recommendations the OIG made in its previous report. In that report, an audit determined that CMS had not recovered $332 million of the $416 million in Medicare overpayments identified in the 30-month period ending in March 2009. Read more.
