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Improper Pay Rate Spikes To Staggering 59% For HHAs

Published on Wed Dec 30, 2015

HHS insists F2F changes will help. Historically high profit margins aren’t the only problem dogging home health agencies. In its 2015 Annual Financial Report, the Department of Health and Human Services notes that the already staggering improper payment rate of 51 percent for home health agencies in 2014 rose to an even more shocking 59 percent rate last year.  In [...]
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