A new report from the HHS Office of Inspector General says the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston must repay $264,140 in Medicare funds due to inadvertent inpatient and outpatient billing errors.
The OIG looked at claims at the 700-bed MUSC, one of the largest academic medical centers in South Carolina, from January 2011 through June 2012. Officials said the hospital made several errors, including billing Medicare for inpatient services that should've been billed as outpatient.
MUSC officials agreed with some of the OIG's findings, but the hospital plans to appeal 20 claims cited as erroneous. Officials said they did believe the claims for inpatient short stays and high-severity diagnosis codes were correct. However, the OIG said it stands by its assessment and believes all claims did not meet Medicare billing requirements.
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