Nursing Homes Overbilled Medicare By $1.5 Billion, Feds Say
Posted on 11/16/2012 by Kaiser Health News | Health | Comments
Bulletin TodayBy Jenni Bergal, Kaiser Health News At a time when the nursing home industry is lobbying Congress to avoid cuts in Medicare payments, a federal watchdog agency is reporting that taxpayers overpaid nursing homes $1.5 billion. The study released this week by the inspector general’s office of the Department of Health and Human Services concluded that nursing homes billed about a quarter of claims incorrectly in 2009 – the year it studied. Most of those claims were “upcoded,” which means …
