Industry Note:
HHAs Serve As Test Subjects For Fraud Baseline
Published on Fri Nov 08, 2013
Home health is serving as a guinea pig in one Medicare fraud initiative, reveals a new Gov-ernment Accountability Office report. The Department of Health and Human Services is trying to establish a "health care fraud baseline." The baseline will facilitate evaluation of fraud prevention activities’ success, the GAO says in the report (GAO-13-746). Under the pilot program, CMS and its [...]