Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Industry Notes:

MBI Issues Are Already an OIG Target As Wave 7 Starts

Plus: Clinicians receive long prison sentences for Medicare fraud. CMS began its Medicare card revamp in April, sending out replacement cards with new Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBIs). However, despite being only six months into the new program and on the heels of the Wave 7 release, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has already added MBI-laden cards to its [...]
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