Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

OIG Eyes Hospital Proration Policy That Affects Referrals

Findings from a recent OIG audit may make your hospital referrals more elusive than ever. “Medicare improperly paid acute-care hospitals $54.4 million for 18,647 claims subject to the transfer policy” from 2016 to 2018, the HHS Office of Inspector General says in its report. The hospitals “coded these claims as discharges to home (16,599 claims) or to certain types of [...]
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