Home Health & Hospice Week

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Fraud Hammer Continues To Pound Home Care

OIG's latest report highlights HHA outliers, DME support surfaces. The feds have three billion good reasons to continue their fraud-fighting campaign against home care and other medical care providers. The HHS Office of Inspector General expects to recover $3 billion in federal monies due to audits and investigations in the first half of fiscal year 2010, it says in its latest semiannual report to Congress. The OIG also reported exclusions of 1,935 individuals and entities from participating in Federal health care programs, 293 criminal actions, and 164 civil actions. More crackdowns ahead: "We have aggressively pursued new avenues of enforcement and are actively developing our operational strategy to successfully meet our growing oversight responsibilities," Inspector General Daniel Levinson says in a release about the new report. The report highlights problems with home health agency outlier payments in Miami Dade county and other areas. Aside from the high-profile outlier fraud and [...]
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