tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2023 Issue Q1

Industry Notes: Offer Your Opinion on the Medicare Overpayment Proposed Rules ASAP

If you missed Medicare’s proposed rule on overpayment procedures, there’s still time to catch up — and offer your opinion. Old way: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ original overpayment rule “requires a provider who has received an overpayment to report and return it within 60 days of the date that overpayment was identified (in most cases),” explain attorneys Lori Wink, Scott Taebel and Kaitlin Nucci with law firm Hall Render in online analysis. That rule uses the 2016 “reasonable diligence” standard, “which allowed a Medicare enrollee up to six months from...

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