BC Advantage - 2019 Issue 3

Voluntary Repayments

Should you volunteer to repay money from Medicare or other federal healthcare programs if you believe they were the result of errors on your end? The penalties for not doing so could be severe. Under the Federal False Claims Act, if retained overpayments can be shown to be to false claims, they are punishable by up to three times the amount of the false claim, plus between $11,181 and $22,363 per false claim. In 2016, the government published regulations, for Medicare Part-B only, that clarified that retained overpayments must be returned to Medicare within 60 days of...

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