{"id":1166,"date":"2007-01-22T07:06:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T07:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/2007\/01\/the_cms_clarifies_the_mandator.html"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:57:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:57:22","slug":"the_cms_clarifies_the_mandator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/the_cms_clarifies_the_mandator\/","title":{"rendered":"The CMS Clarifies the Mandatory Whistleblower Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

The salutary intent of the Deficit Reduction Act was to require that employers educate employees about the Federal False Claims Act and, hopefully, address fraud and abuse by employer entities receiving $5 million dollars or more in federal funds under the Medicaid program. When the Deficit Reduction Act was passed in 2005, a debate emerged about whether the DRA education provisions mandating employee education about the Federal False Claims Act applied directly to healthcare providers and\/or whether states receiving Medicaid had to pass implementing legislation to make the provision effective. In December of 2006, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) set the record straight. An “entity” includes a government agency, organization, unit, corporation, partnership or other business arrangement (including any Medicaid managed care organization, irrespective of the form of business structural or arrangement by which it exists) whether for profit or not for profit, which receives or makes payments under a state plan approved under Title XIX or under any waiver of such plan, totaling at least $5 million annually. In short, states do not have to implement legislation to make the provision effective and any entity receiving $5 million or more annually in Medicaid benefits must implement the mandatory education provision.
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The salutary intent of the Deficit Reduction Act was to require that employers educate employees about the Federal False Claims Act and, hopefully, address fraud and abuse by employer entities receiving $5 million dollars or more in federal funds under the Medicaid program. 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