pausing Medicaid payments<\/a> to Minnesota earlier this year, Oz has filmed videos and sent letters to governors seeking information and demanding they craft plans to improve the integrity of their programs and revalidate providers.\n <\/p>\n\n In February, Oz sent a letter to Maine Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, citing concerns about the state\u2019s Medicaid-funded treatment program for children with autism and demanding information about what the state is doing to identify and prevent fraud, as well as to recover stolen or misspent funds. Mills called the effort a \u201cpolitical attack.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n CMS also placed a similar six-month nationwide moratorium on certain companies that provide durable medical equipment, such as wheelchairs, hospital beds and oxygen equipment \u2014 an industry it says is also rife with fraud.\n <\/p>\n
\n The administrator has focused his hospice anti-fraud efforts in the Los Angeles area. CMS says it has suspended $70 million payments to 773 hospices and 23 home health agencies suspected of fraud in the city.\n <\/p>\n
\n CMS has also revoked or deactivated hundreds of hospices and home health agencies it says engaged in fraud or improper activity; increased oversight of new hospice providers in Arizona, California, Georgia, Ohio, Nevada and Texas; expanded reviews of home health agency claims in Florida, Illinois, Oklahoma, Ohio, North Carolina and Texas; and conducted hospice site visits.\n <\/p>\n
\n However, the new moratorium could hurt legitimate providers of hospice services and limit patients\u2019 access to care, the National Alliance for Care at Home said in a statement.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cAn enrollment moratorium raises serious access-to-care concerns in areas where patient demand is growing or existing capacity is already strained, leading to longer wait times, reduced service availability, and fewer choices for patients \u2013 particularly in rural or underserved communities,\u201d the alliance said.\n <\/p>\n
\n The group added it and other national organizations have provided CMS with recommendations and targeted strategies for stopping bad actors from entering Medicare and Medicaid, while not overly burdening good-faith providers.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Wednesday that it is placing a six-month moratorium on new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-440019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}