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Article: HCFA seeks laws to recover money. (Health Care Financing Administration)
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- February 17, 1997
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WASHINGTON - Unsuccessful in federal courts, the Health Care Financing Administration is turning to Congress for new authority to recover claims payments that group health care plans - not Medicare - should have made.
HCFA, the federal agency that administers Medicare, is drafting legislation that would give it essentially unlimited time to go after group health care plans and their administrators in order to recover mistaken Medicare payments. That would offset a 1994 court ruling against HCFA.
In addition, HCFA is preparing legislation that would require group health insurers and administrators to provide basic information, such as birthdates, on employees ...