Reports

• Setting Medicare Payment Rates for Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests: Strategies To Ensure Data Quality

  

• Advisory Opinion 18-06

  

• Testimony of Gloria L. Jarmon.

  

• First Coast Service Options, Inc., Did Not Claim Some Medicare Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan Costs Through Its Incurred Cost Proposals

  

• The MEDIC Produced Some Positive Results but More Could be Done to Enhance its Effectiveness

  

• The Colorado Health Insurance Marketplaces Financial Management System Did Not Always Comply With Federal Requirements

  

• Opioids in Ohio Medicaid: Review of Extreme Use and Prescribing

  

• The Indian Health Services Controls Were Not Effective in Ensuring That Its Purchase Card Program Complied With Federal Requirements and Its Own Policy

  

• Medicare Improperly Paid Providers for Items and Services Ordered by Chiropractors

  

• University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority Incorrectly Billed Medicare Inpatient Claims With Severe Malnutrition

  

• Michigan Did Not Always Comply With Federal and State Requirements for Claims Submitted for the Nonemergency Medical Transportation Brokerage Program

  

• CMS Did Not Detect Some Inappropriate Claims for Durable Medical Equipment in Nursing Facilities

  

• Opioid Use in Medicare Part D Remains Concerning

  

• Toolkit: Using Data Analysis To Calculate Opioid Levels and Identify Patients At Risk of Misuse or Overdose

  

• Part D Plans Generally Include Drugs Commonly Used by Dual Eligibles: 2018

  

• Advisory Opinion 18-05

  

• Advisory Opinion 18-04

  

• Nebraska Did Not Always Verify Correction of Deficiencies Identified During Surveys of Nursing Homes Participating in Medicare and Medicaid

  

• Most Medicare Claims for Replacement Positive Airway Pressure Device Supplies Did Not Comply With Medicare Requirements

  

• Texas Made Increased Payments for Services Rendered by Eligible Primary Care Providers Under Federal Requirements