Article: University Hospital of Brooklyn cited by OIG for organ acquisition cost practices.(Office of Inspector General)

Article: California Pacific Medical Center latest charged by OIG with ...
Transplant News;  January 31, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... inaccurate Medicare cost reports for organ acquisition costs. The OIG informed California ... and guidelines for claiming organ acquisition costs and received excess Medicare reimbursement for organ acquisition activities" in calendar years ...

Article: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER'S ORGAN ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 10, 2006 ;     510 words ... ... University of Maryland Medical Center's Organ Acquisition Costs for State Fiscal Year 2003 ... guidelines for allocating costs to organ acquisition and for maintaining adequate documentation ... for reporting its costs, including organ acquisition costs, to the Commission. Specifically ...

Article: Federal government takes aim at transplant centers' organ ...
Transplant News;  August 31, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... keeping and reporting practices for organ acquisition costs reimbursed by the Medicare ... repay more than $4.5 million in organ acquisition overcharges if they cannot document ... was investigating transplant center organ acquisition charges and the findings seem certain ...

Article: REVIEW OF ORGAN ACQUISITION COSTS CLAIMED BY ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 28, 2006 ;     432 words ... ... the 11 centers claimed allowable organ acquisition costs on their Medicare cost reports ... regulations and guidelines for claiming organ acquisition costs. Of the almost $80 million ... claiming, allocating, and documenting organ acquisition costs. However, almost $47 million ...

Article: CMS enforcement of rule covering organ acquisition ...
Transplant News;  April 28, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... of a 12-year-old rule covering organ acquisition fees could cost US taxpayers millions ... reimbursement of kidney and other organ acquisition costs on a 1990 revision of the original ... resulted in a reduction of the total organ acquisition costs incurred by UMC (i.e ...

Article: HHS OIG says Tampa General Hospital overstated organ ...
Transplant News;  June 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... overstated fiscal year (FY) 1999 organ acquisition costs by $1,459,070, in accordance ... criteria. The OIG review focused on organ acquisition costs claimed by TGH totaling $7 ... to assure the proper reporting of organ acquisition costs allocated to Medicare." The ...

Article: ... The OIG released separate audit reports on three hospitals ...
Healthcare Financial Management;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... and guidelines for claiming organ acquisition costs and received excess Medicare payment for organ acquisition activities. The hospitals were ... with Pledicare's definition of organ acquisition or that were incurred for non ...