Home Health & Hospice Week

Compliance:

OIG, HH Chain Duke It Out Over Audited Claims

Ten denied claims lead to $2.1M overpayment. The latest improper payment rate for fee-for-service Medicare home health services has fallen drastically to 12.1 percent in 2019, but you wouldn’t know that from reading the latest report about an HHS Office of Inspector General audit of a home health agency. “For calendar year (CY) 2016, Medicare paid home health agencies (HHAs) [...]
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