Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Notes:

OIG Highlights HHA, Hospice Fraud & Noncompliance In Semiannual Report

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 [...]
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