Medicare Voluntary Repayments: Unappreciated Trap Lurking in the Audit process
We have written extensively on the voluntary repayment rules and Dan has added to that with his new publication “Key Questions and Answers for Medicare Voluntary Repayments,”. Alice focuses on a specific unappreciated trap lurking in the audit process as it relates to voluntary repayments in “Heightened Peril From Physician Audits” because an external audit by one of the myriad federal contractors is prima facie credible evidence there is something to be looked at. It is more important today than ever to approach an audit properly in order to come out with a positive result. Internal audits create their own separate obligations to take action. Physician practices and anyone else paid under Parts A and B would do well to take heed.