Hospice:
OIG Shoots Down One-Third Of GIP Claims Reviewed
Published on Fri Apr 08, 2016
Watch out: Hospice-specific RAC in the works. Expect increased scrutiny of General Inpatient care following an HHS Office of Inspector General report claiming hospices widely overbilled for the service. The OIG reviewed 565 GIP stays from 2012 and deemed 31 percent of them inappropriate, costing Medicare about $268 million, according to the report. Breakdown: Twenty percent of the GIP reviewed [...]