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Hospice Pays Half-Million For Missing Recerts
Published on Tue Aug 17, 2021
Hospice Pays Half-Million For Missing Recerts An Alabama hospice is paying the piper after confessing to its compliance sins. After it self-disclosed conduct to the HHS Office of Inspector General, Hospice of Limestone County Inc. in Alabama agreed to pay $500,000 for allegedly violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law, the OIG says on its self-disclosure webpage. “OIG alleged that HOL submitted claims to Medicare for hospice services that lacked recertifications of terminal illness,” the OIG says.
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