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Hospices In The Hot Seat For Improper Payments, Even As Error Rate Declines

Published on Fri Dec 01, 2023

Payment error rate drops by more than half. Following the recent trend, hospices are bumping home health agencies out of the fraud-and-abuse spotlight. In this case, the Department of Health & Human Services profiles hospices as one of the four biggest drivers of Medicare improper payments, according to the agency’s recent Agency Financial Report for Fiscal Year 2023. (The other [...]
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