Home Health & Hospice Week

Fraud & Abuse:

Don’t Expect Oversight To Let Up, Federal Report Indicates

Watchdog agency urges tightening up of hospice bundling. If you need a reminder of why your agency may be seeing unprecedented scrutiny, look no further than the HHS Office of Inspector General’s Semiannual Report to Congress. “For every $1 invested in the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program, we recovered more than $4 for taxpayers,” Inspector General Christi Grimm [...]
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