tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 43

Rehab: OIG TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT REHAB

Medical necessity and cardiac rehab top the OIG's list of hot spots.  The 2004 Work Plan for the HHS Office of Inspector General gives rehab providers many reasons to make sure they're following Medicare rules and regs. This Work Plan reinforces the importance of complete and accurate documentation, points out attorney Donna Thiel with Morgan Lewis & Bockius in Washington. Documentation is essential in a provider's efforts to support medical necessity, which is a "strong theme" this year, adds attorney William Sarraille with Sidley Austin Brown & Wood in Washington. "Rehab providers would do well to design specific...

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