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AMAPresses CMS On Incarceration Takebacks

Steamed about the reimbursement withheld for supposedly incarcerated beneficiaries? You now have a powerful ally. CMS recouped funds for these beneficiaries earlier this summer (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXII, No. 26). "Beneficiary data used by CMS to identify periods of incarcerations was, in some cases, incomplete and that recovery actions may have been inaccurate," the American Medical Association says in [...]
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