Tag: Inappropriate payments
New York
March 3, 2010Liz Beaulieu, Editor
ALBANY, N.Y. - The state Medicaid program hopes to do a better job of weeding out inappropriate payments for certain HME this year, a move that it believes will save $1.9 million in 2010-2011.
The state believes the move will save even more money, $2.3 million, in 2011-2012.
"At first blush, it sounds like they're going to be putting more edits in the system," said Carol Napierski, executive director of the New York Medical Equipment Providers association (NYMEP). "We just hope they do it...