tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2012 Issue 4

Compliance: OIG Urges Physicians to Use 'Heightened Security' When Reassigning Medicare Payments

You could be liable for false claims submitted by those entities. Reassigning your Medicare payments to a third party may be old hat to your practice -- in fact, a 2008 OIG report indicated that 77 percent of practitioners have at least one reassignment on file. But have you ever considered the compliance implications of reassigning your benefits? The OIG has -- and the agency issued a warning last week telling practices to tighten up their reassignments. The facts: On Feb. 8, the OIG released an important alert to medical practices, informing them to "exercise caution when reassigning their...

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