Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Notes:

Retroactive Medical Director Payments Feature In Whistleblower Case

Pennsylvania provider pays high 6 figures to settle Stark Law charges. A recent False Claims Act settlement revolving around noncompliant medical director payments may prove a good warning for home health agencies. Nonprofit Pennsylvania health system Penn Highlands Healthcare and several of its hospitals have agreed to pay $735,000 to settle charges that it violated the Stark self-referral law by [...]
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