Home Health & Hospice Week

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HH, Hospice Improper Payment Rates Creep Up After Years Of Declines

HHAs, hospices racked up more than $3.5 million in wrong payments, according to latest CERT reckoning. Home health and hospice agencies may not be able to claim quite as much moral high ground this year regarding Medicare’s improper payment figures. Background: When the Department of Health and Human Services calculated an improper payment rate under the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing [...]
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