tci Part B Insider - 2008 Issue 30

Physician Notes: CMS 'Cooked the Books' And Reported An Inaccurate Error Rate, New OIG Report Indicates

Plus: Practices that are part of CMS' Physician Practice Group Demonstration Project earned a total of nearly $17 million in bonusesCMS may have boasted that it slashed inappropriate spending in 2006, but the agency allegedly overlooked nearly $2.8 billion in improper Medicare spending, according to a late-breaking new report.On Aug. 21, the New York Times reported that the OIG will soon issue a document indicating that CMS "told outside auditors to ignore government policies that would have accurately measured fraud." If the auditors had properly reviewed the records, they would have found about $2.8 billion...

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