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OIG Upbraids Hospices For Claims Submitted By Nonhospice Providers, Plans Audits

Published on Fri Feb 25, 2022

CMS urged to consider hospice pay restructure. The feds’ focus on hospice bundling continues to intensify. Now the HHS Office of Inspector General has issued a data brief on the matter, reviewing statistics over 10 years. The OIG found that Medicare paid nonhospice providers $6.6 billion from 2010 to 2019 for hospice patients. Why is that a problem? “The Centers [...]
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