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Physician Notes: Feds Plan to Ramp Up Payment Scrutiny

Plus: CMS alerts providers to Blue Button 2.0 bug. Due in part to the skyrocketing costs of healthcare, Medicare wants to reduce improper payments from the get-go. Details: Back in September, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule in the Federal Register titled “Program Integrity Enhancements to the Provider Enrollment Process.” The rule outlined the agency’s initiative to utilize the Medicare enrollment system to stop fraudsters before they joined the program. Now: CMS expanded on this integrity plan with its “five-pillars program” to combat improper payments and cut Medicare...

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