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Nov
stored in: Tim Rowan's Home Care Technology Report and tagged: Affordable Care Act (ACA) and payments in home health, CMS enforcement procedures, CMS home health regulations and penalties, CMS sanctions in home health, CMS survey certifications, compliance with Medicare regulations, HIPAA compliance and home health, home health agencies and fraud, home health agency compliance, home health agency sanctions, rebasing
By Liz Seegert Reviewing the nuances of survey certifications and enforcement procedures may not make anyone’s top 10 list of most exciting workshops – however, attendees at this year’s NAHC session said it was high on their list of most important sessions. Patricia Sevast, RN, of CMS’s Survey and Certification Group, walked participants through […]
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11
Sep
stored in: Tim Rowan's Home Care Technology Report and tagged: fraud and abuse, home health agencies and fraud, home health visits, Medicare, Medicare beneficiaries and fraud, Medicare billing, Medicare Fraud Strike Force, physical therapists and home healthcare fraud, physician referrals and home health fraud, whistleblowers and home health
Muhammad Shahab, the mastermind of an almost $11 million Medicare fraud scheme in Detroit, was sentenced on September 12 to 50 months in prison. He pled guilty to billing for visits never performed, paying beneficiaries for the use of their Medicare numbers and paying kickbacks to physicians. This article identifies the legal representatives who […]
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