Hospice Insights Podcast: What’s the Latest on UPICs? Highlights from Recent Audit Activity, Part I
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 5: Understanding Palliative Care: Strategies for Compliance and Reimbursement
Hospice and Home Health Survey Perspectives: A Conversation with Kim Skehan, VP of Accreditation at CHAP
Episode 172: Matthew Roberts and Lauren DeMoss, Maynard Nexsen Health Care Attorneys
A Very “Special” Episode: Amid Controversy, CMS Launches the Hospice Special Focus Program
Grace from CMS: Unexpected Good News on HIS and CAHPS Appeals
This Bandwagon Has a Broken Wheel: OIG Joins the Inconsistent Approach to Hospice GIP Claims
Beyond Hospice: Home Health Agencies Plagued by UPICs and SMRCs
Beyond Hospice: The OIG Renews Its Scrutiny of Home Health Agencies
On February 14, 2022, OIG issued Advisory Opinion No. 22-03 analyzing a proposed arrangement under which home health agency (HHA) owners would pay tuition costs of nurse aid certification programs for new employees who are...more
On February 14, 2022, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued Advisory Opinion No. 22-03 (Advisory Opinion) regarding a home health agency’s (Requestor) proposal to pay nurse aide certification tuition costs on behalf of...more
From December 23, 2020 through December 31, 2020, the OIG issued several advisory opinions. The advisory opinions analyzed (1) a program for a pharmaceutical manufacturer to provide financial assistance to certain patients,...more
In Advisory Opinion 19-03, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) approved a program proposed by a medical center that has been providing free, in-home follow-up care to eligible individuals with congestive heart failure...more
As the industry eagerly awaits the outcome of the “Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care”—the multi-pronged, inter-agency initiative within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to identify and remove barriers to...more
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) recently issued a new advisory opinion finding that free introductory visits (the “Introductory Visits”) for patients offered by a home health...more