Medicare Paid $5.7B for 'Not Reasonable and Necessary' Inpatient Rehab Care

Health Leaders: Medicare paid hospital-based inpatient rehabilitation facilities $5.7 billion in one year for care that was not reasonable and necessary, a new audit shows.

The review, done for the Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services by an independent auditor, examined $6.75 billion in Medicare payments to 1,139 IRFs nationwide for 370,872 IRF stays in 2013.

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