4.7% of hospitals, 24% of providers fail post-payment audits

Laura Pedulli | | Health Exec | Artificial Intelligence

Nearly 5 percent of hospitals and 24 percent of eligible providers failed post-payment audits, according to the latest Meaningful Use data.

The Department of Health & Human Services has conducted 4,780 post-payment audits, of which 4,601 have been completed. Of these, 1,106 failed to meet Meaningful Use objectives and associated measures and had to return, on average, $16,862.81, according to the analysis.

For eligible hospitals, 29 of the 651 hospitals failed the audits. The proposed amount of returned incentive payment ranged from $280,414 to $3.4 million. In total, overall proposed returned incentives totaled nearly $33 million.

The highest post-payment audit failure rates for eligible providers took place in Montana and Vermont, with the highest failure rate among eligible hospitals having occurred in North Dakota and South Carolina. 

Laura Pedulli

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