{"id":21214,"date":"2023-05-08T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21214"},"modified":"2023-05-08T07:55:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T11:55:01","slug":"medicare-improperly-paid-for-580m-in-psychotherapy-services-oig-audit-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21214","title":{"rendered":"Medicare improperly paid for $580M in psychotherapy services, OIG audit finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Rylee Wilson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medicare improperly paid for over half a billion dollars in psychotherapy services, including telehealth, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, an audit from HHS&#8217; Office of Inspector General found.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/medicare-improperly-paid-for-580m-in-psychotherapy-services-oig-audit-finds.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/medicare-improperly-paid-for-580m-in-psychotherapy-services-oig-audit-finds.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"49\" class=\"wp-image-9962\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHS-Office-of-Inspector-General.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHS-Office-of-Inspector-General.jpg 623w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DHS-Office-of-Inspector-General-300x74.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rylee Wilson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Medicare improperly paid for over half a billion dollars in psychotherapy services, including<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,36,6,48,52,33],"tags":[80,75,308,620,61,103],"class_list":["post-21214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-dhs-oig","category-medicare-general","category-mental-healthbehavioral-health","category-pandemic","category-telehealth","tag-cms","tag-covid-19","tag-dhs-office-of-inspector-general","tag-improper-payments","tag-medicare","tag-telehealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21215,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21214\/revisions\/21215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}