Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Recent Nursing Home-Hospice Partnership Highlights OIG's Blessing On Limiting Access

Baptist Retirement Community and Hospice of San Angelo in Texas are partnering, reports the Standard-Times. Both are non-profits. Remember: “Nursing home operators may restrict residents to one or two hospice providers,” the HHS Office of Inspector General said in a 1998 Special Fraud Alert about relationships between the two providers at http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/docs/alertsandbulletins/hospice.pdf.
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