Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Senior Medicare Patrol Project Shrinks

Your patients may not be giving you as much scrutiny as in previous years. So implies a new HHS Office of Inspector General report on the Senior Medicare Patrol. The 54 Patrol projects saw their number of volunteers decrease by about 9 percent to 5,137 in 2012, the OIG says. But that doesn’t mean the projects aren’t producing results. They [...]
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