ICD10monitor October 26, 2022
Rumors persist of possible leadership changes at some Medicare Advantage plans in the mid-South region.
From where I sit, which is very close to the Gulf of Mexico, there are apparent winds of change blowing through the Medicare Advantage (MA) payers.
This seems to be a direct result of what has been ongoing – and, hopefully soon, more aggressive actions will be taken by the U.S. government, specifically the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG), in their audits of MA plan activities and processes. There was a recent New York Times article by Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz, titled The Cash Monster Was Insatiable: How...