CMS Fines New West Health Services For Second Time Of 2015

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) fined New West Health Services, a Medicare Advantage Plan which has 18,000 Medicare beneficiaries, $204,200 after it failed to correct previously cited Medicare violations. This is the second fine for the Helena, Montana-based nonprofit, after it was fined $349,800 in January, 2015, for falling out of compliance with several Medicare rules. New West didn't pay claims quickly enough for out-of-network providers, and the government requires Medicare Advantage plans to pay out-of-network providers, or deny the claims, within 60 days. New West has until . . .