OIG Work Plan New Hospital Issues Added For 2013
Thursday, October 4th, 2012
OIG 2013 Work Plan – Hospital Issues Aded To OIG Work Plan
Hospitals—Inpatient Billing for Medicare Beneficiaries (New)
Hospitals—Diagnosis Related Group Window (New)
Hospitals—Non-Hospital-Owned Physician Practices Using Provider-Based Status (New)
Hospitals—Compliance With Medicare’s Transfer Policy (New)
Hospitals—Payments for Discharges to Swing Beds in Other Hospitals (New)
Hospitals—Payments for Canceled Surgical Procedures (New)
Hospitals—Payments for Mechanical Ventilation (New)
Hospitals—Quality Improvement Organizations’ Work With Hospitals (New)
Hospitals—Acquisitions of Ambulatory Surgical Centers: Impact on Medicare Spending (New)
Critical Access Hospitals—Payments for Swing-Bed Services (New)
Long -Term-Care Hospitals—Payments for Interrupted Stays (New)
Issues That Continue To Be On OIG Radar
Hospitals—Same-Day Readmissions
Hospitals—Acute-Care Inpatient Transfers to Inpatient Hospice Care
Hospitals—Admissions With Conditions Coded Present on Admission
Hospitals—Inpatient and Outpatient Payments to Acute Care Hospitals
Hospitals—Inpatient Outlier Payments: Trends and Hospital Characteristics
Hospitals—Reconciliations of Outlier Payments
Hospitals—Duplicate Graduate Medical Education Payments
Hospitals—Occupational-Mix Data Used To Calculate Inpatient Hospital Wage Indexes
Hospitals—Inpatient and Outpatient Hospital Claims for the Replacement of Medical Devices
Hospitals—Outpatient Dental Claims
Hospitals—Outpatient Observation Services During Outpatient Visits
Critical Access Hospitals— Variations in Size, Services, and Distance From Other Hospitals
Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities—Transmission of Patient Assessment Instruments
Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities—Appropriateness of Admissions and Level of Therapy
