Becker's Healthcare September 8, 2022
About 1,714 providers billed Medicare inappropriately for telehealth early in the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the HHS Office of Inspector General.
The HHS gathered data from Medicare fee-for-service claims and Medicare Advantage encounter data from March 2020 through February 2021.
The regulators focused on the roughly 742,000 providers that billed for a telehealth service, looking for indicators of fraud, waste or abuse, and set a high threshold to identify providers with billing practices that pose a “high risk” to Medicare.
Five things to know:
- The HHS found that roughly half a million Medicare beneficiaries have received almost $127.7 million in fee-for-service payments in one year.
- More than half of the high-risk providers were...
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