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OIG Investigated Scores Of Hospices Last Year

Published on Fri Apr 12, 2019

Hospice oversight continues to ramp up, and a recent HHS Office of Inspector General report may give you an idea of just how much. In 2018, the OIG had 128 open hospice investigations, eight of which concerned patient abuse or neglect, the OIG says in its annual report on Medicaid Fraud Control Units. In the same year, federal authorities secured [...]
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