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HH Payment Error Rate Continues To Plummet

Published on Fri Jan 03, 2020

Hospice error rate falls, too. Medicare has just handed home health agencies ammunition to support their fight against being labeled as fraudsters. The improper payment rate for fee-for-service Medicare home health services in 2019 was 12.1 percent, says a newly released report from the Department of Health and Human Services. That’s down from a whopping 59 percent error rate Medicare’s [...]
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