Sunday, October 18, 2026 - Updated Daily
Sunday, October 18, 2026 - Updated Daily
Medicare home health and hospice billing fraud has emerged as a significant issue within the U.S. healthcare system, costing taxpayers billions of dollars annually and jeopardizing the integrity of federal health programs. Fraudulent practices in…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that the agency recovered $2.9 billion in resolutions to federal False Claims Act allegations for 2024 (fiscal year ending September 30). This is a slight increase from the historic…
Yesterday, CMS dropped a memo to state survey agencies titled, “Ensuring Consistency in the Hospice Survey Process to Identify Quality of Care Concerns and Potential Fraud Referrals”. The memo is available here: qso-25-06-hospice According to…
On September 30, US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle from the Middle District of Florida ruled in a landmark decision that the qui tam provision of the federal False Claims Act (FCA) is unconstitutional. This…
The Accreditation Commission for Health Care, Inc. (ACHC) has launched two new specialty credentials for organizations providing home care and/or hospice. These programs are in line with the Age-Friendly Health Systems (Care) programs and initiatives…
Mergers and acquisitions activity in the seniors housing and care sector set a new quarterly record with 183 publicly announced transactions in the second quarter of 2024, as reported by LevinPro LTC. This represents a…
Since I started this site, a topical area that has been a constant for me is hospice and in particular, fraud and abuse. Recent cases have again put Hospice fraud and abuse, front and center….
Private equity investment in the nursing home and assisted living sector (other post-acute as well) continues to be a focus of regulatory activity in Congress. This is despite private equity investment in the nursing home…
TGIF! A frequent reader sent me a note earlier in the week and asked if I would drop in more clinically oriented stuff from time to time. I asked for details, and she said stuff…
Happy Hump Day! As I wrote in a post on Monday regarding CMS’ Proposed Rule for SNFs, ’tis the season. This time of year, is when CMS drops proposed changes to reimbursement and other programmatic…
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