Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Medicare Denies 800 HHA And Ambulance Enrollments In Last 4 Years

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services touts home health “savings” from “paused enrollments” in its announcement of its beefed up Program Integrity measures (see story, p. 74). Medicare cut home health and ambulance spending by $677 million from 2011 to 2015 with 800 enrollment denials and 500 revocations, CMS estimates. Medicare also saved $548 million in that time period [...]
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