Home Health & Hospice Week
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High Provider Numbers, Utilization Led To Home Health Moratoria, GAO Explains
Published on Fri Jul 04, 2014
The Government Accountability office is reminding Congress of home care’s reputation for fraud once again.
In a new report, the GAO points out the moratoria on new home health providers in the fraud hot spots of Chicago, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, De-troit, Dallas, and Houston. “These moratoria are scheduled to be in effect until July 2014, unless CMS extends or lifts them,” the GAO points out in the report, “Medicare Fraud: Further Actions Need-ed to Address Fraud, Waste, and Abuse.” Fraud risk factors that contribute to the decision to impose a moratorium include disproportionate number of pro-viders relative to beneficiaries and extremely high utilization, the GAO notes in the report.
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