Wednesday, October 14, 2026 - Updated Daily
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 - Updated Daily
A home health agency can miss its numbers for a quarter and recover. It can miss a key compliance signal and spend the next year dealing with repayments, audits, and reputational damage. That is why…
This is part three of the series of posts on hospice and home health fraud. Parts one and two can be accessed below. https://rhislop3.com/medicare-hospice-and-home-health-fraud-part-1/ https://rhislop3.com/medicare-hospice-and-home-health-fraud-part-2/ Recent Cases and Settlements in Medicare Fraud High-Profile Hospice Fraud…
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…
In 1998, CMS created the Special Focus Facility initiative or program designed to target or focus attention on improving the poorest performing facilities (performance defined by survey/compliance history). Each state selects up to 15 of…
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