Home Health & Hospice Week

Fraud & Abuse:

Latest Fraud Takedown Features Home Care Schemes

Physician kickbacks included in charges. The nation’s Medicare fraud hot spots have produced a new crop of fraudsters using home care to perpetrate their schemes — making life harder for legitimate home care providers. Medicare Fraud Strike Force teams in six cities orchestrated a takedown resulting in charges against 90 individuals, including 16 doctors and 11 nurses and other medical [...]
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