Home Health & Hospice Week
OIG Announces $2 Million Amedisys Hospice Settlement
Foundering chain self-reports hospice certification fraud.
After the $150 million settlement with the Department of Justice that Amedisys Inc. agreed to last fall, a $2 million settlement with the HHS Office of Inspector General over hospice practices may seem like small potatoes.
“After it self-disclosed conduct to OIG, Amedisys, Inc. (Amedisys), West Virginia, agreed to pay $1,974,812.00 for allegedly violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law,” the OIG says in a new post on its “False and Fraudulent Claims” website. The OIG alleges that Amedisys wholly-owned subsidiaries Amedisys Hospice of Parkersburg and Amedisys Hospice in St. Clairsville “submitted claims for hospice services for which the certification documents did not meet Federal health care program requirements.”
Details: “OIG contends the contracted medical directors at Amedisys-Parkersburg and Amedisys- St. Clairsville pre-signed blank medical forms, including certificates of terminal illness and faceto- face visit forms, which were later completed by Amedisys staff members,” the OIG continues.
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