Review of Medicare Outpatient Billing for Selected Drugs at Johnston Memorial Hospital.

摘要

Johnston Memorial Hospital (Hospital) is an acute-care hospital located in Abingdon, Virginia. Based on data analysis, we reviewed $136,772 in Medicare payments to the Hospital for 31 line items for injections of selected drugs that the Hospital billed to Medicare during our audit period (January 1, 2008, through April 30, 2011). These line items consisted of injections for doxorubicin hydrochloride liposome, pemetrexed, rituximab, immune globulin, and adenosine. Our objective was to determine whether the Hospital billed Medicare for injections of selected drugs in accordance with Federal requirements.