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The Firm and its Tennessee co-counsel secured a preliminary injunction in federal district court in Tennessee that precludes CMS (and its contractors) from initiating recoupment with respect to approximately $7 million in alleged Medicare overpayments against the Firm’s DME supplier client.  In 2017, the firm’s client – a national DME supplier based in Memphis – Read more →

Tags : cms , DME Supplier , Medicare , medicare overpayments

Based upon a reconsideration appeal prepared by the Firm on behalf of a revoked physician provider, First Coast Services Options reversed the revocation of the physician’s Medicare billing privileges. Following an almost yearlong investigation by SafeGuard Services and CMS, the Medicare billing privileges of the physician were revoked. The Firm reviewed the basis for the Read more →

Tags : Medicare

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced effective January 31, 2014, a six-month moratorium continues for new and pending applications for home health agency providers and suppliers in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties and begins in Broward County. The moratorium, invoked under the Affordable Care Act, also affects other large metropolitan cities such as Read more →

Tags : Affordable Care Act , Medicaid , Medicare

The Firm has secured the reinstatement of the billing number for a provider that was revoked by Medicare for the last year. Through a combination of appeals and direct interaction with Medicare officials, Medicare agreed to reverse the revocation, finding that the provider had made a good faith effort to comply. The provider was revoked Read more →

Tags : Medicare