Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

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Hospices Need Increased Physician Involvement, OIG Warns

Hospices do important work, which is why they aren't exempt from scrutiny, the OIG's latest hit list suggests. In addition to being labeled a high-fraud area, in the HHS Office of Inspector General's recent report on "Top Management and Performance Challenges," the OIG gives hospice payment as an example of "paymentpolicies [that] create financial incentives that may drive up Medicare [...]
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