Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Fraudsters, in the meantime, are already in action! On June 18, Jane Glenn Haas of the Orange County Register wrote in her post on www.seattletimes.nwsource.com that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) had started mailing out "doughnut hole" checks to around 80,000 people across the nation. Over the course of the next year, Jane goes on to say in her post, CMS estimates 4 million seniors, about 10 percent of those covered by Medicare, will receive these rebate checks which are one-time rebates for eligible seniors who have entered the Medicare Part D doughnut hole. These $250 Medicare rebate checks are part of the recently enacted healthcare reform package, and are intended to help close the coverage gap (or "doughnut hole") in Medicare's prescription drug program. What needs to be kept in mind here, it reads in a blog post on www.blogpost.com , is that the [...]