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Program Integrity Manual Update Heads Off Double Recoveries

Published on Fri Mar 13, 2020

A new Medicare Program Integrity Manual update should reduce potential double whammies on hospices that exceed their aggregate per-beneficiary cap. Old way: “Historically, PI contractor re-views of hospices have overlapped with the MAC review of the benefit cap liability for those same hospices; resulting in a potential double recovery for the government,” the Centers for Medicare Services says in the [...]
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