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User ID: 39957454 United States 03/27/2020 09:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Fraud suit filed against Anthem today Anthem is being sued? Looks like they have been “over billing” Medicare here is the link [ link to www.justice.gov (secure)] The Complaint alleges that ANTHEM, as one of the nation’s largest MAOs, operated dozens of Medicare Part C plans, including the Empire MediBlue plan in New York. To supplement its collection of diagnosis codes besides what it received from healthcare providers, ANTHEM implemented a “retrospective chart review” program using a vendor called Medi-Connect. Specifically, ANTHEM paid Medi-Connect to collect medical records from healthcare providers corresponding to services they rendered to ANTHEM’s Part C beneficiaries and then review those records to identify all diagnosis codes supported by the medical records. ANTHEM then submitted to CMS any diagnosis codes identified by Medi-Connect that ANTHEM had not already submitted to CMS based on what providers initially reported. The Complaint further alleges that when ANTHEM asked healthcare providers to provide records to Medi-Connect, ANTHEM characterized its chart review program as an “oversight activity” that would “help ensure that the [diagnosis] codes have been reported accurately.” In fact, however, ANTHEM did not use the information it received from Medi-Connect to check the accuracy of diagnosis codes it had submitted to CMS. Specifically, when Medi-Connect’s review did not validate diagnosis codes that ANTHEM previously submitted to CMS, ANTHEM did not make any effort to verify or delete those codes. Last Edited by dizzee on 03/27/2020 09:04 PM |