Industry Notes:
OIG Highlights HHA, Hospice Fraud & Noncompliance In Semiannual Report
Published on Fri Dec 19, 2014
Fraudulent Texas physician gets the spotlight. Even though the physician narrative for face-to-face goes away Jan. 1, home health agencies’ reputation for noncompliance may linger. “We found that for 32 percent of home health claims that required face-to-face encounters, the documentation did not meet Medicare requirements and physicians inconsistently completed the narrative portion of the face-to-face documentation,” the HHS Office [...]