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OIG Ramps up HHA Oversight for 2012

Published on Tue Jan 03, 2012

OIG work plan adds 5 new HHA topics to 4 existing ones. Monitoring home health agencies will be high on the OIG's priority list this year, according to the agency's 2012 work plan. The HHS Office of Inspector General has added two new topics regarding HHA oversight to its work plan: "States' Survey and Certification of Home Health Agencies: Timeliness, Outcomes, Follow-up, and Medicare Oversight" and "Medicare Administrative Contractors' Oversight of Home Health Agency Claims." Its three other new HHA topics for the coming year are "Missing or Incorrect Patient Outcome and Assessment," "Questionable Billing Characteristics of Home Health Services," and "Wage Indexes Used To Calculate Home Health Payments." The five new topics join four existing HHA topics on the work plan: "Medicare's Oversight of Home Health Agencies' Patient Outcome and Assessment Data," "Home Health Agency Claims' Compliance With Coverage and Coding Requirements," "Home Health Prospective Payment System Requirements," and [...]
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