Medicare Claims Audits: They’re Ba-aack

Audit expert Wayne van Halem joins the HME Business podcast to discuss how CMS will phase its audits back in, and how providers should prepare.

• By David Kopf
• Sep 17, 2020

Remember how, back on March 30, CMS suspended its claims audits to help DMEPOS suppliers continue serving beneficiaries during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency? Well, CMS surprised everyone by announcing it would resume those audits starting in August. So, how is CMS resuming its audits? What's the timeline? What do providers need to do?

In the current episode of the HMEB Podcast, audit expert Wayne van Halem, president of The van Halem Group, discusses how CMS will likely phase back in the DME MAC Targeted Probe and Education, Supplemental Medical Review Contractor (SMRC) reviews and Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) audits. He also outlines how providers should prepare, and tackles additional questions.

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In the previous episode of the HMEB Podcast, Don Clayback, executive director of the National Coalition for Assistive and Rehab Technology (NCART), sits down to discuss a campaign to convince lawmakers to add their signatures to a House sign-on letter urging CMS to not apply competitive bidding-derived pricing to accessories for manual complex rehab wheelchairs.

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