OIG work plan adds 5 new HHA topics to 4 existing ones.
Monitoring home health agencies will be high on the OIG's priority list this year, according to the agency's 2012 work plan.
The HHS Office of Inspector General has added two new topics regarding HHA oversight to its work plan: "States' Survey and Certification of Home Health Agencies: Timeliness, Outcomes, Follow-up, and Medicare Oversight" and "Medicare Administrative Contractors' Oversight of Home Health Agency Claims."
Its three other new HHA topics for the coming year are "Missing or Incorrect Patient Outcome and Assessment," "Questionable Billing Characteristics of...
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