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OIG Has Hospice Inpatient Care In Its Sights

Published on Fri May 10, 2013

If your hospice lies at either end of the GIP spectrum, expect to take increasing heat. Why? The HHS Office of Inspector Gen-eral analyzed hospice claims data for 2011 to identify General Inpatient trends, it says in a new report. Most of the $1.1 billion in GIP care for which Medicare paid in 2011 went to services furnished in hospice [...]
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