CMS should honor its commitment to Medicare beneficiaries, especially those who began home respiratory therapy under the PHE, without requiring them to "restart" the documentation process. Requiring requalification would also be a nightmare for physicians who are already overwhelmed with patient demands.
Because Medicare and Medicaid claims audit requests can look like routine billing-related correspondence, they can be easy to miss, leading to expensive and potentially catastrophic.
This month, OIG updated its work plan to include a new Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Nationwide Audit. In explaining the new workstream, OIG cited high IRF error rates in.