When awaiting organ acquisition costs, go back a few years
Health Care Auditing Strategies, August 1, 2006
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Your hospital's older cost reports-the ones that your FI has already approved-may be like ticking time bombs when it comes to compliance for organ acquisition costs.
The OIG has found a gold mine of noncompliance in faulty reporting of organ acquisition costs, and the search may not be over yet. What's more, it would be a mistake to think that your older cost reports are safe because your FI has already signed off on them.
In May 2005, the OIG recommended that Dallas-based Baylor University Medical Center's FI recover $4.2 million in inappropriate organ acquisition costs for a period between July 1, 1996 and June 30, 2001, even though the cost reports had already been approved by the FI.
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