Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

OIG Blasts HHA Surveys

Cheating by providers too easy under current protocol, report concludes. Expect increased micromanagement of how you generate your patient roster for surveys, if one watchdog agency gets its way. The problem: When the HHS Office of Inspector General checked home health agency generated patient lists for 28 surveys against claims data, nine of the rosters "were incomplete," the OIG says [...]
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