CMS-10398-005 State Medicaid Payment Suspensions

State			Number of Full Suspensions
Date of Report			Number of Partial Suspensions
Reporting Period			Number of Referrals to Law Enforcement
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State

Date of Report

Nature of Credible Allegation(s) of Fraud

 Billing Fraud  Other

Basis for Suspension Instructions: Select the most appropriate option(s). The total number associated with each option selected should equal the number of provider payment suspensions imposed.

Total Number of Payment Suspensions

1.  Upcode/Overcharge Medicaid program for services rendered 2.  Billing for services not rendered or performed 3.  Billing for medically unnecessary services 4.  Billing for Drugs: a.  unlicensed or unapproved drugs b.  brand-name drugs when generic drugs are prescribed c.  Short-filling prescriptions, but charging as if the full amount of the medication was dispensed 5.  Unbundling – Using multiple billing codes instead of a single billing code in order to increase the reimbursement amount 6.  Billing for services using stolen, deceased, or otherwise inappropriate provider and/or beneficiary identification number 7.  Billing for unlicensed or excluded providers 8.  Other

Total Number

Number of Payment Suspensions Resolved Number of Active Payment Suspensions

State
Date of Report
T otal Dollar Amount of All Payments Suspended
N umber of Provider Appeals of Payment Suspensions
N umber of Payment Suspensions Lifted as a Result of Provider Appeals and T otal Dollar Amount Associated with the Payment Suspensions that were Lifted as a Result of the Provider Appeals Reported Above
Of all payment suspensions, were any providers terminated and/or excluded as a result of referral to law enforcement?	 Yes  No
If yes, how many providers?

State
Date of Report
Good Cause Exercised (State exercised good cause to not suspend payments or partially suspend payments to providers)	 Yes  No (do not complete the rem  No (If no, do not answer the remainder of the questions) If Yes, Number of cases with no payment suspension implemented
	Number of existing payment suspensions discontinued N umber of suspensions changed from full suspension to partial suspensions
Nature of Good Cause Exercised	1.  Law enforcement 2.  Suspension removed or partially imposed based upon submission of written evidence by the provider 3.  Recipient access to items or services would be jeopardized, i.e., Individual or entity is sole community physician or sole source of essential specialized services, or serves a large number of recipients within a HRSA-designated medically underserved area 4.  Law enforcement declines to certify that a matter continues to be under investigation 5.  State determines that suspension is not in the best interests of the Medicaid program 6.  Credible allegation of fraud focuses only on a specific type of claim or arises from a specific business unit of a provider and partial suspension ensures that potentially fraudulent claims were not continuing to be paid 7.  State determines that suspension in part is in the best interests of the Medicaid program. 8.  Other available remedies

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