Physicians Practice October 17, 2022
HHS-OIG shares findings from its review of potential fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicare billing for telehealth visits in the first year of the pandemic.
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, patient telehealth visits (i.e., remotely provided healthcare services) have increased dramatically. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”), data from the first year of the pandemic (i.e., March 1, 2020 to February 28, 2021) shows that “[m]ore than 28 million Medicare beneficiaries—about 2 in 5—used telehealth services that first year.”[1] Additionally, “beneficiaries used 88 times more telehealth services during the first year of the pandemic than they did in the prior year.”[2] Meanwhile, during this same time period, HHS...
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