Home Health & Hospice Week

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OIG Hammers Home Health Fraud In Semiannual Report

Report revisits $3.1 million hospice settlement. Home health agencies are front and center when it comes to targets on which the feds are focusing. So says the HHS Office of Inspector General in its semiannual report to Congress. The OIG is “tracking its own performance in priority areas, such as … reducing improper payments for home health services in fraud [...]
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