CMS Starts Recouping Medicare Payments Made To Health Care Providers Last Year During The Pandemic

RevCycle Intelligence (4/5, LaPointe) reports, “CMS has started recouping Medicare payments it fronted to [health care] providers last year during the COVID-19 pandemic.” CMS “stated that it has begun recovering the payments through the COVID-19 Accelerated and Advance Payments (CAAP) on March 30, 2021, and will continue recoupment depending on the one year anniversary of when providers received their first payment.”