NAHC Submits Recommendations to CMS, OIG in Wake of Report on Hospice Elections, CTIs

In mid-September, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a report, “Hospices Should Improve their Election Statements and Certification of Terminal Illness.”  In this study the OIG reviewed 563 election statements and related documentation from hospice records that were part of the GIP study; all records were from…