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Use These Tactics To Prepare For ZPIC Audits

Published on Fri Dec 14, 2012

Why you should focus on 7 specific problems. With the wide variety of compliance issues and audits that you have to worry about, you have one more added to the list -- Zone Program Integrity Contractor (ZPIC) audits. And ZPICs are increasing among home health agencies and hospice providers. ZPIC audits tend to closely follow the target areas identified in the HHS Office of Inspector General’s Workplan -- which isn’t good news for HHAs and hospices, says attorney Robert Liles of Liles Parker PLLC in a recent blog post. The OIG’s recently released 2013 Workplan slammed HHAs and hospice providers with a proposal for "intense government scrutiny." ZPIC audits have expanded in scope and increased in intensity, and "have been focused on HHAs in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Florida," he notes. Watch out: Unlike other Medicare audits, ZPIC audits are not random, according to a recent CMS Compliance Group blog post. "ZPIC [...]
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