AGG’s Home Health & Hospice team publishes a quarterly newsletter covering legal and regulatory topics specific to the home and community-based healthcare industry. The fields of end-of-life and home healthcare present...more
A New Jersey hospice provider must continue its long fight against whistleblowers alleging it violated the False Claims Act (“FCA”) by seeking Medicare reimbursement for patients whose documentation did not support hospice...more
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), the agency that administers the Medicare hospice benefit, has announced increased scrutiny of hospice programs in the wake of growing concerns over hospice service...more
AGG’s Home Health & Hospice team publishes a quarterly newsletter covering legal and regulatory topics specific to the home and community-based healthcare industry. The fields of end-of-life and home healthcare present...more
Over the last three decades, the OIG has developed a series of voluntary compliance program guidance documents (“CPGs”) directed at various segments of the healthcare industry, such as hospitals, nursing homes, and hospices....more
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (“MedPAC”) will hold a public virtual meeting on December 8, 2022, to assess payment adequacy and updating payments for hospice services. By law, each year MedPAC reviews Medicare’s...more