tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2010 Issue 24

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Once you're on a Medicare payment suspension, you shouldn't expect to get off it any time soon. In a new report, the Office of Inspector General examines Medicare payment suspensions that Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services imposed on providers in 2007 and 2008. Of 253 suspensions during that time, CMS removed suspensions for only three providers based on rebuttals, says the report. However, only 41 of the 253 providers even submitted rebuttals for their suspensions (suspensions are not appealable). Most of the suspensions in the time period occurred in Florida, Puerto Rico, California, and Michigan, the OIG notes...

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