Home Health & Hospice Week
CMS Extends HHA Moratoria In Fraud Hot Spots
It’s no surprise that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is once again extending its moratoria on the enrollment of new HHAs in certain counties of Florida, Illinois, Michigan, and Texas. The affected counties include the Chicago, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Detroit, Dallas, and Houston metro areas.
CMS first implemented the moratoria in July 2013 in Miami-Dade and Chicago (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXII, No. 27), two years after the moratorium authority was enacted. Then in February 2014, it added Ft. Lauderdale and the counties in Texas and Michigan (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXIII, No. 6).
More cities ahead? Since most of the current moratoria areas also have HEAT Medicare Fraud Strike Force teams operating in them, don’t be surprised if a third wave of HHA moratoria announcements include the last four Strike Force cities — Baton Rouge, La., Brooklyn, N.Y., Los Angeles, and Tampa Bay, Fla., experts say. See which counties are affected in the notice at www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-02-02/pdf/2016-01585.pdf.
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CMS Extends HHA Moratoria In Fraud Hot Spots
It’s no surprise that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is once again extending [...]
