Administration of the Medicare Program-Payment Safeguards: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations United States Senate One ... Session; Special Hearing (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Administration of the Medicare Program-Payment Safeguards: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations United States Senate One Hundred Third Congress First Session; Special Hearing. Medicare has to pay. Compared to 116 million claims for inpatient and outpatient hospital services, nonhospital claims are expected to total 630 million claims in 1994. This represents a 55-percent increase in such claims since 1989.. Despite the rising volume of claims, contractors' per-claim funding for payment safeguards has declined since 1989 by over 20 percent. The largest portion of con tractor safeguard funding pays for staff who develop payment controls, review claims, and investigate suspect providers. When claims volume increases but the number of safeguard staff remains constant or declines, contractor staff apply fewer or less stringent payment controls.. About the Publisher. Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.