PBGH just recently sent out a client alert regarding UPMC/Highmark Continuity of Care Settlement as follows: UPMC and Highmark have announced a settlement agreement that addresses the Consent Decrees’ Continuity of Care provision. This settlement will govern continuity of care beginning January 1, 2016 until the end of the Consent Decrees on June 30, 2019.
November 2015
SGR Fix Already Revised and Hospital Outpatient Department $$ Reduced
By Michael Cassidy on
Posted in Medicare & Reimbursement
The ink was barely dry on the Medicare Physician Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) fix, and it has already been changed.
One component of the SGR fix, which was just passed in April of this year, was freezing Medicare physician payments from 2019 through 2025, and then allowing a .75% increase for physicians participating in alternative…
OIG Posts Advisory Opinion on Free Transportation Program
By Paul Welk on
Posted in Compliance, Fraud - Stark
On October 21, 2015 the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General posted Advisory Opinion No. 15-13. This Opinion relates to a request for Advisory Opinion about a plan to offer free van shuttle services to certain medical facilities in an integrated health system. The Office of Inspector General (the “OIG”) …