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OIG Slaps HHA With $1 Million Overpayment Assessment

Published on Fri Sep 25, 2020

Ambulation distance figures prominently in audit findings. The HHS Office of Inspector General is seeing a chal-lenge to its latest charges of incorrect billing. Background: The OIG has been releasing a series of audits of home health agencies, noting that it put the agencies’ claims under scrutiny thanks to the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) findings from 2016 indicating a [...]
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