Overhaul urged in hospital payments by HHS Inspector General

According to a new report from Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General, the tool that CMS uses to set hospital payments is often inaccurate, resulting in at least $140.5 million in overpayments to 272 hospitals from 2014 to 2017. The report recommends an overhaul of the wage index system to mend several vulnerabilities which includes CMS’ lack of authority to penalize hospitals that submit inaccurate wage data or retroactively adjust final wage indexes and recover overpayments or remedy underpayments. Read article here…

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