RevCycle Intelligence April 21, 2021
Medicare billing errors from years ago may spell trouble for program integrity moving forward as telehealth billing continues to grow because of COVID-19.
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at HHS is calling for more oversight over provider compliance with Medicare billing rules for telehealth payment after finding errors that cost Medicare nearly $3.7 million over a two-year period.
In a report released earlier this month, OIG released the findings from a review of more than 190,000 distant-site telehealth claims paid for by Medicare from calendar years 2014 and 2015 that did not have corresponding originating-site claims.
The federal watchdog found that CMS paid providers millions of dollars for some telehealth claims associated with services that did not comply...
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