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OIG Wants More Frequent Hospice Surveys

Published on Fri Sep 06, 2013

Hospice goes 22 years with no surveys. Does getting surveyed about once a decade sound good to you? It doesn’t to the HHS Office of Inspector General. The OIG repeated a 2007 study of hospice survey intervals and found that the frequency of recertification surveys has not improved since 2005, it says in a new report. Seventeen percent of state-surveyed [...]
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