DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 1 (January)

CMS may drop mandatory Medicare Advantage fraud, waste training

You would no longer face mandatory annual fraud, abuse and waste training in order to contract with Medicare Advantage plans under a CMS proposal to ditch the requirement. This training requirement, which went into effect Jan. 1, 2009, obligated MAs to conduct compliance training and education to contracted personnel, including physicians and their staff (PBN 2/23/09). Many providers complained that undergoing training from multiple MAs is burdensome and wasteful.

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