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OIG Points Finger At Hospice In Semiannual Report

Published on Thu Dec 28, 2017

Home health agencies aren't the only ones on the hook for low overpayment collection rates. The HHS Office of Inspector General takes hospices to task for the problem too in its latest semiannual report to Congress. The rate for home health agencies and hospices combined is only 11 percent, the OIG recently said (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XXVI, No. 44). [...]
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