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Thursday, Jun 11 2009Medicare Overpaid Imaging Providers in 2001, HHS OIG SaysCMS improperly paid 94 in yeezy dependent diagnostic testing facilities $164,839 for services rendered in 2001, according to HHS Ins air max plus pector General Daniel Levinson, CQ HealthBeat reports. In a June 30 memo to CMS Administrator Mark McClellan, Levinson writes, Services that IDTFs provided to Medicare beneficiaries were not always reasonable and necessary, ordered by a physician or sufficiently documented, adding that there seemed to be a marked pattern of repetitive use of services, with 55 of the sampled beneficiaries accounting for 1,095 of 1,231 questioned services. OIG also estimated that imaging facilities enrolled with 10 selected carriers received $71.5 million in Medicare payments for services that were not in c owala ompliance with federal law. Levinson urged CMS to recover the more than $164,000 in overpayments and also to perform reviews and recover the $71.5 million in potential improper payments made to the 10 carriers, particularly those located in California and Florida. OIG also called for CMS to perform site visits to monitor agency compliance and testing facilities enrollment applications, although CMS said that a lack of funding would prohibit it from doing so. CMS said it would recover Medicare overpayments unless the recovery of the funds cost more than the agency s owed amount. CMS also requested that Levinson provide the data necessary to review and recover potential overpayments CQ Hea
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