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Department of Justice
Investigative Summary: Findings of Misconduct by an FBI Special Agent for the Unauthorized Disclosure of Court-Sealed, Sensitive Law Enforcement Information to the Media
Audit of the Office on Violence Against Women Grant and Office for Victims of Crime Cooperative Agreement Awarded to Gulfcoast Legal Services, St. Petersburg, Florida
Houston Methodist Hospital (the Hospital) located in Houston, Texas, complied with Medicare billing requirements for 111 of the 159 inpatient and outpatient claims we reviewed. However, the Hospital did not fully comply with Medicare billing requirements for the remaining 48 claims, resulting in net overpayments of $609,000 for the audit period. Additionally, the Hospital did not fully comply with Medicare billing requirements for three of the five separate inpatient claims we reviewed, resulting in overpayments of $68,000. On the basis of our sample results, we estimated that the Hospital received approximately $1.3 million in overpayments from Medicare.
