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HHS OIG: CMS Made Payments Associated With Providers After Referring Individual Providers’ Debts to the Department of the Treasury for Collection

February 1, 2015

Pursuit's Take

CMS made Medicare and Medicaid payments associated with 23 of 82 individual physicians with delinquent debts after CMS had referred their Medicare debts to the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) for collection.

Specifically, CMS directly paid 5 individual physicians after having referred their Medicare debts to Treasury, and 21 individual physicians provided services for an entity that received Federal reimbursement. The 23 individual physicians, who collectively owed CMS a total of $8.84 million ($8 million owed by 21 individual physicians that performed services for entities and $42,000 owed by 2 individual physicians that received only direct payments), were paid a total of $10.7 million ($317,000 in direct payments to 5 individual physicians and $10.4 million in payments to entities for services performed by the 21 individual physicians).

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