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Check And Double-Check Your Nurses' Credentials

Published on Fri Sep 22, 2023

Check your clinicians’ licenses or pay for the mistake later. That’s a lesson Agape Hospice Care of Northeast Georgia has learned the hard way. Agape has agreed to pay $250,993 for violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law by submitting claims for services provided by two unlicensed nurses, the HHS Office of Inspector General says on its CMPs webpage. “Single damages [...]
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