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Feds Keep The HEAT On Home Care, Hospice Providers

Published on Fri Apr 17, 2015

Patient recruiters and kickbacks feature in fraud enforcement actions. You may feel like all the high profile fraud busts in the home care arena give the industry a bad name, but the feds claim they are actually cleaning up the industry. “Medicare payment trends demonstrate the positive impact of [HEAT] Strike Force enforcement and prevention efforts,” says the HHS Office [...]
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