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OIG Docks Nonprofit HHA For These Patients

Published on Fri Jan 03, 2020

Watch out: Refusing therapy may make your patient ineligible for home care at all, recent audit suggests. Beware if your files include patient scenarios similar to those outlined in the latest HHS Office of Inspector General report: Case #1: The patient “had been hospitalized for approximately 1 week for severe abdominal pain and was treated for a small bowel obstruction [...]
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