Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Notes:

HHA That Employed Excluded Nurse Goes Under

Be careful to check your employees against the OIG’s exclusion list, or you could pay the ultimate price. Case in point: Ambulatory Health Care Services, LTD., a Skokie, Ill., home health agency, has been excluded from participation in all federal health programs for three years as a result of its employment of an excluded nurse, the OIG says on its [...]
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