Home Health & Hospice Week

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Medicare Payment Error Rate Drops Sharply For Hospice, Home Health

But don’t expect to get out of the investigative hot seat any time soon. Finally, home health and hospice agencies are getting some good news from the feds. The Comprehensive Error Rate Testing program found the payment error rate for both types of providers much lower this year. Hospices clocked in with an overall 5.4 percent error rate for fee-for-service [...]
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