tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 33

INDUSTRY NOTES: OIG To Oncologists--Tighten Your Belts

Plus: Don't let a CMS edit keep you from appealing radiology claimsCancer practices are doing fine, insists the HHS Office of Inspector General in the latest of a long line of reports on oncology drugs. The OIG surveyed a dozen oncology practices and found that nine of them could buy 15 cancer drugs at the Medicare rate or cheaper. The other three practices, however, had to pay more than the Medicare rate for at least half of those drugs. Unfortunately, 11 out of 12 practices didn't have any way to track the costs of providing the drugs, apart from...

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