Compliance:
OIG Green Lights Introductory Visits For Home Health
Published on Fri Sep 11, 2015
The catch: Visit must occur after referral. You may want to reconsider your admissions process, based on a recent HHS Office of Inspector General advisory opinion. Last month, the OIG gave its stamp of approval to a home health agency furnishing nonmedical “introductory visits.” The scenario: As laid out in the HHA’s letter requesting OIG approval, a hospital discharge planner [...]