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Post-COVID fallout continues to be a problem. If you need a reminder of why your practice may be seeing unprecedented scrutiny, look no further than the HHS Office of Inspector General’s (OIG’s) latest enforcement opus. Background: In the OIG’s Semiannual [...]

Public feedback amount fluctuates significantly. Just how much Medicare officials will listen to home health providers’ pleas may rest, at least in part, on the number of folks who are speaking up. This year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...]

Caution: AKS issues remain an OIG sticking point. With the pandemic largely in the rearview mirror, you may be revising your policies and heaving a sigh of relief. But don’t get too comfortable — federal enforcers aren’t taking any breaks [...]

Plus: MAC needs to collect all cap overages, watchdog agency highlights. Home health and hospice agencies aren’t playing a starring role in the HHS Office of Inspector General’s latest Semiannual Report to Congress, but they do get some less-than-desirable attention. [...]

Plus: Hospice stiffed its workers too, DOL says. If you were wondering how hard the feds are coming down on wage-related home care infractions, a group of cases this month will show you. Case #1: A Pennsylvania federal court has [...]

>‘Other industries have piles of money to throw around, but we have the best people with the best stories,’ industry veteran says. >Home health agencies and their representatives are not about to take the proposed 4.2 percent cut to Medicare [...]

Hold off on budget neutrality adjustments, case mix recalibration, commenters urge. The clock is ticking down to the release of the home health final rule, and the major changes it will require. Home health agencies hope the rule comes with [...]

Watchdog agency serves up its long string of HHA, hospice audits to Congress in latest semiannual report. If you thought the OIG would lay off home health agency audits now that its number of audit reports for the provider type [...]

Moorestown, New Jersey-based BAYADA Home Health Care is forming a joint venture with Baptist Health in Jacksonville, Florida, the company say in a release. The combined organization, called Baptist Home Health Care by BAYADA, plans to begin operations in early [...]

Commenters want the behavioral cut gone. In a few short weeks or even days, home health agencies will know what their Medicare reimbursement rates for next year will be. As it does annually, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [...]