Day: July 31, 2009

Hospice Update

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In March, I wrote about the MedPAC recommendations to change the Medicare Hospice program and payment system.  Yesterday, CMS announced the final (2010) payment for Hospice as well as the implementation structure of some key MedPAC recommendations.  The final rule will be published August 6th in the Federal Register. For FY 2010 (commencing October 1), … Read more

Duties of Boards: An OIG Perspective

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This seemed to be a natural successor topic to my last post, “Why Quality Matters”; principally arising out of recent press releases from the OIG.  For example, in June the OIG reported that it had recovered $2.4 Billion in fraud, waste and abuse.  In July, an OIG release reported that a Nursing Home Executive was banned … Read more