Compliance: What Delay In 60-Day Overpayment Final Rule Means For You
Why one-year postponement doesn’t really give you a reprieve.
You won’t see a final rule on how you must handle Medicare overpayments until next year — but this won’t actually change your compliance obligations. Here’s what you need to know.
Background: In a Feb. 17 Federal Register notice, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it would delay publication of the final rule covering reporting and returning Medicare overpayments until next year. CMS said that it would hold off on publishing the final overpayment rule until Feb. 16, 2016.
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