Medicare Fraud in Home Health: A Conversation with Sherill Mason (August 6th)
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Listen Now Medicare billing fraud is pervasive. It's estimated at $50 to $60 billion annually or approximately 10% of all of Medicare spending. While billing fraud is committed in numerous ways from never performed procedures to fake patient care, it's possibly no more prevalent than in home health care, an industry of 12,000 providers whom bill Medicare $18 billion annually. For example, a 2010 DHHS Office of the Inspector General report found one in every four home health agencies had unusually high billing. In one example, federal officials in 2012 arrested a Texas-based home health provider accusing him and his colleagues of running a $375 million home health scam.
Medicare Fraud in Home Health: A Conversation with Sherill Mason (August 6th)
Medicare Fraud in Home Health: A Conversation…
Medicare Fraud in Home Health: A Conversation with Sherill Mason (August 6th)
Listen Now Medicare billing fraud is pervasive. It's estimated at $50 to $60 billion annually or approximately 10% of all of Medicare spending. While billing fraud is committed in numerous ways from never performed procedures to fake patient care, it's possibly no more prevalent than in home health care, an industry of 12,000 providers whom bill Medicare $18 billion annually. For example, a 2010 DHHS Office of the Inspector General report found one in every four home health agencies had unusually high billing. In one example, federal officials in 2012 arrested a Texas-based home health provider accusing him and his colleagues of running a $375 million home health scam.