Home Health & Hospice Week

Fraud & Abuse:

Prior Auth Not A Good Fraud-Fighting Tool, Commenters Insist

If Medicare wants to adopt stiffer fraud-fighting activities, it should at least choose ones that work — and that won’t be prior authorization for home health services. So said many commenters on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Feb. 5 proposal for a prior auth demo in five states (see story, p. 114). “Requiring a prior authorization in order [...]
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