tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2010 Issue 13

Legislative Update: Reform Bill Gives Nod to Free Services for Financially Needy Patients

Home health agencies could get on board with this.  In the past, a provider that offered free home safety equipment to patients might expect a knock on the door from the OIG. But the healthcare reform legislation opens the door for providers to give financially needy Medicare or Medicaid patients free, non-covered items or services related to their medical care. A couple of OIG advisory opinions have frowned on those types of arrangements, says attorney Robert Belfort, with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP in New York City. Under the healthcare reform law's new exception, however, a home health...

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