Government Trying to Recoup More Medicaid Dollars
If you think Medicare is the only government payer coming back to recoup overpayments, think again.
In its report The Department of Justice Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notes that it recovered a record $835.7 million from those who attempted to defraud Medicaid in 2012. The unprecedented amount of Medicaid dollars recouped was included in the government’s total $4.2 billion that it recovered from practices that fraudulently billed federal healthcare programs.
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