Home Health Care News August 1, 2022
Patrick Filbin

Federal watchdogs reported the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has not collected the near-$500 million in Medicare overpayments that were found in audits over a two-year period beginning in 2014.

The Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG-HHS) recently reviewed 148 Medicare audits it conducted for 30 months between 2014 and 2016 and could only verify that CMS collected $120 million of the $498 million in overpayments.

CMS, on the other hand, said it collected a total of $272 million – 55% – but OIG could not confirm CMS collected the remaining $152 million because CMS “did not provide adequate documentation to support” that it collected the rest, according to OIG.

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