Tag: fraud and abuse

NAHC Expresses Concern to CMS About Hospice Proliferation in Some States

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), joined by three other important industry stakeholders, has written to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), to express our increasing concern about reports of rapid proliferation of certified hospice agencies in select states. Most recently, the findings of the California State Auditor1…

Administration’s Proposed FY2019 Budget Ups Ante on Medicare/Medicaid Program Integrity

The President’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget release on Monday includes a slate of Medicare and Medicaid program integrity proposals certain to affect the home health care community. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) actuaries project that every new dollar spent combating fraud results in $2 saved, and budget documents point to a return on…