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New York Hospice Settles GIP, CHC Upcoding Charges For $5.2 Million

Published on Fri Aug 21, 2020

Higher-level care continues to be a flash point for hospice fraud investigations. Metropolitan Jewish Health System Hospice and Palliative Care, a New York nonprofit hospice provider, has settled allegations that it “knowingly billed Medicare and Medicaid for unnecessary levels of hospice care,” the Department of Justice says in a release — namely Continuous Home Care and General Inpatient Care. MJ [...]
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