Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

DOJ Ups Prosecutions

You can expect the Department of Jus-tice to keep the heat on Medicare providers. "The Justice Department’s Medicare Fraud Strike Force has set record numbers for health care prosecutions in Fiscal Year 2013," the DOJ crows in a release. "The strike force set records in the number of cases filed (137), individuals charged (345), guilty pleas secured (234) and jury [...]
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