OIG Finds Billing Errors For Psychiatric Services

June 5, 2000OIG Finds Billing Errors For Psychiatric Services The Office of Inspector General's (OIG) Office of Audit Services determined that Medicare should not have reimbursed 100% of the services included in the 100 sample claims submitted by the Medicare partial hospitalization program (PHP) at Mental Health Corporation in Denver, Colorado. OIG estimates that $4,447,607 of the charges for PHP services for the FY 1996 did not meet Medicare requirements. In a separate audit of Connecticut’s Danbury Hospital, an acute care facility, auditors estimated that the hospital submitted $750,790 in billings to Medicare for outpatient . . .