Home Health Compliance:
Documentation, Background Checks On OIG's Hit List For HHAs This Year
Published on Tue Feb 18, 2014
Home health agencies bilk Medicare of $1 billion, the OIG says. The HHS Office of the Inspector General lists no new topics for HHAs in its 2014 Work Plan, but the watchdog agency does continue to list two ongoing areas of investigation: “home health prospective payment system requirements” and “employment of individuals with criminal convictions.” The PPS topic looks into [...]