A federal contractor responsible for collecting money owed to Medicare from workers’ comp and other payers may finally be cleaning up a mess created when cases were sent prematurely to the U.S. Treasury Department for collection.
And Performant Financial Corp., the contractor that came on board in February to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Commercial Repayment Center, appears to have whittled down a backlog of cases that it inherited from the previous contractor. That means Performant will be “ramping up” collection efforts on new cases, some s...
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