. >> dr. evans, when there are costs associated with the hospital payment, especially in high-value, inpatient claims, and they are overturned the rack returns commission? >> that's correct. >> do they share in the cost of that appeal at all? >> well, the cost of our work doing that appeal and the work doing the review, initially. >> having lost that claim, does a rack reimburse some portion of the costs? that's the financial penalty that occurs. there's not a payment for any of the costs of the hospital. so i'm not aware. >> the impact is you return the commission and you don't share in the cost of the lost appeal. >> we pay our portion of attending the appeal. >> we pay our portion of attending the appeal and the provider pays their portion of attending the appeal. win or lose, that's how it's done? >> thaekt. so when we win, there's not any difference, either. >> and i'll finish with this. listening to testimony today, there are a nice number of short stays that may be problematic. did cms ever i

dr. evans. >> chairman brady, ranking member dr. mcdermott and members of the committee, thank you very much for this opportunity to testify before you today. i am dr. ellen evans, lead physician with health data insights, the region "d" cms recovery auditor. i am a proud graduate of the university of texas medical school, residency trained, board certified >> i joined hci during the iraq demonstration program. at hdi, i oversee all of our medical and clinical reactivities. the recovery audit program is not focused on fraudulent payments. we review sclams to ensure compliance with medicare practices and, also, identify underpayments that are returned to the providers. this component is a critical care under medical operations because over $30 billion are improperly paid by medicare every year. since passed and implemented in 2006, over $8 billion in properly-paid medicare dollars have been recovered as well as over $700 million in underpayments returned to providers. recovery auditors identify the types of claims that are most at-ri

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dr. young's headache center soon. and now there's word that social security and disability officials in washington are taking another look at the doctor's petition to make chronic migraine an official disabling condition. joyce evans, fox 29 news. >> hope until that decision will come very, very soon for these people. hope so. >> most new parents look forward with anxious anticipation to the day they can bring their newborn home from the hospital. >>> for one new jersey mom that moment still has not come from one of her triplets almost a year after she was born. 25 year old brook sellly gave birth to her baby girls back in october. that was a full 12 week early. doctors had told her earl until her pregnant the babies would probably have to stay at chop for sometime. two of the girls though were released after two months but the smallest little matty is still in the nick u doctors feared matty wouldn't even make it. >> the first few months it was very hard for us even to get her to grow. because when babies breathing like that, they're spending almost all their calories to breathe. >> but now 10 months old matty is thriving and brooks hopes she'll be home by her first birthday thanks to her two sisters tonight at 1