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Documenting Homebound Status Must Be Top Priority, Latest OIG Audit Shows

Eighteen claims equal $1.8 million overpayment in new report. The HHS Office of Inspector General’s string of home health agency audits keeps getting longer. Don’t expect the OIG to stop adding to it any time soon. The OIG is “back to scrutinizing home health,” observes attorney Robert Markette Jr. with Hall Render in Indianapolis. While the OIG has always focused [...]
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