Medicare Fee-for-Service Estimated Improper Payments Fall $15B since 2016

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today that the Medicare Fee- For-Service (FFS) improper payment rate has continued to decline, the fourth year Medicare FFS improper payment rate has been below 10 percent, the threshold for compliance established in the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019. The Medicare FFS estimated improper payment […]

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Improper Payment Rates for Home Health and Hospice Providers Decreased in 2019

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The improper payment rate for home health providers in 2019 dropped 5.5 percent to 12.1 percent, from last years’ rate of 17.6 percent. Non-hospital based hospices had an overall improper payment rate of 8.9 percent, a 2.1 percent drop from 11 percent in 2018 and hospital based hospices had an 18.9 percent improper payment rate, […]

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Improper Payment Rates Fall for Home Health and Hospice Providers

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Improper payments to home health providers fell by almost 15 percent and to hospices by three percent, according to the 2018 Medicare Fee-for-Service Improper Payment Data report. As NAHC has stated previously, these sharp reductions in improper payments demonstrates that Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) plan to initiate the Review Choice Demonstration is […]

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In Light of New Evidence, NAHC Pushes OMB, CMS to Back off Review Choice Demonstration

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The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is calling on the Office of Budget Management (OMB) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to stop the planned Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) before it begins, in light of new evidence showing that “improper payments” in home health have been rapidly declining without […]

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