tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 14

COMPLIANCE: CERT Slip Will Bring You OIG Attention

Don't let a non-response mar your record If you fail to respond quickly to a record request from a CERT contractor, don't be surprised if you are almost immediately harassed.   The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants its payment error rate information, and it's not kidding around. CMS took over the Medicare payment error rate report from the HHS Office of Inspector General last year, and achieved a lower response rate to medical record requests than the OIG had been obtaining.   Then, when CMS excluded the so-called "non-responders," from its error rate figures, lawmakers harshly...

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