Home Health & Hospice Week

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OIG SAYS HOME CARE QUALITY OK

Home health agencies haven't been providing inadequate services under the prospective payment system. So says an HHS Office of Inspector General report that analyzes rehospitalizations and emergency room visits for home health patients in the first three years of PPS.

Note: For more information, see next week's Eli's Home Care Week.
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