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Fraud & Abuse:

OIG Leader Emphasizes Compliance Importance

Published on Fri Aug 19, 2016

Watchdog singles out hospice fraud and abuse as particular risk. Expect the enforcement hits to keep on coming for the hospice industry. In a speech at the Health Care Compliance Association Compliance Institute meeting this spring, HHS Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson identified kickbacks and bribes within the hospice program as one of the agency’s top compliance issues at the [...]
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