First few Article Sentences
Have you reviewed your past Medicare billings recently? There could be a ticking time bomb hiding in them.
In the President’s agenda to both balance the budget and reform healthcare, considerable attention has been given to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This is no surprise when you take into account that Medicare and Medicaid make up one-fifth of our national budget and are the nation’s largest health insurance programs. Consequently, CMS has been empowered with the resources to research, audit, and recoup the money it has paid wherever it can identify an overpayment, independent of whether the overpayment occurred due to fraud, dishonesty, or as a legitimate error.