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OIG Slaps Hospice With $3.3 Million Overpayment Estimate

Published on Fri Jun 18, 2021

Error rate ‘extremely misleading,’ hospice’s attorneys say. The HHS Office of Inspector General continues to hammer on hospices, this time targeting a Fairfield, California provider. An OIG reviewer scrutinized a 100-claim sample from Professional Healthcare at Home, doing business as Kindred Hospice. Professional/Kindred received Medicare reimbursement of $20.3 million for hospice services provided from April 1, 2016, through March 31, [...]
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