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Regulations:

Brace Yourself For A Longer Lookback Period

Published on Fri Feb 01, 2013

Medicare now has two more years to collect on overpayments. Your frustration with the three-year lookback period may seem like peanuts, now that recent legislation gives Medicare a five-year lookback period to come after overpayments that Medicare made to you. Background: Last May, the HHS Office of Inspector General published its Obstacles to Collection of Millions in Medicare Overpayments, which [...]
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