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For example, Cigna Group agreed to pay $172 million last year to settle a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department over its Medicare Advantage practices for allegedly using in-home health risk ...
Jimmy Carter signs Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments into law. The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as mandated by Public Law 95-452 (as amended), is established to protect the integrity of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs, to include Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as the health and welfare of the ...
The Zone Program Integrity Contractor (ZPIC) is an entity established in the United States by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to combat fraud, waste and abuse in the Medicare program.
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), (H.R. 2, Pub. L. 114–10 (text)) commonly called the Permanent Doc Fix, is a United States statute. Revising the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 , the Bipartisan Act was the largest scale change to the American health care system following the Affordable Care Act in 2010.
Based on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ five-star rating system for nursing homes, of the 199 homes examined in Washington, 31, or about 15.6%, have the worst one-star rating ...
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From the program's start in 1997 through December 2019, SMP projects and staff have recovered about $129 million in Medicare and Medicaid funds, and between 2016 through 2019, the program led 107,000 group education sessions and reached an estimated 6.5 million people through community education events. [1]
A Florida couple is facing child abuse charges after local authorities say the man beat a child for nearly half an hour and his wife failed to help the boy. The incident happened on Dec. 7 in ...