Tag: Polysomnography
OIG: Medicare overpaid for PSG services
June 20, 2019HME News Staff
WASHINGTON - Medicare made payments to providers for polysomnography services that did meet billing requirements, according to a new report from the Office of Inspector General.Of 200 randomly selected Medicare beneficiaries, payments were made for 117 that met billing requirements with 276 corresponding lines of services, and for 83 that did not meet requirements with 150 corresponding lines of services, resulting in net overpayments of $56,668, according to the OIG. Based on the sample results,...