The FBI has arrested five people in connection with a $15 million hospice fraud and money laundering scheme. The arrests took place in California, a state that has been rife with hospice fraud in recent years, along with Arizona, Texas and Nevada. Petros Fichidzhyan, Juan Carlos Esparza and Karpis Srapyan allegedly owned and operated a […]
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of the Inspector General
Increased regulatory and clinical oversight is needed to address common billing and documentation errors related to hospice general inpatient care, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG). Inaccurate billing was among the driving forces behind the OIG’s recently announced nationwide audit of general inpatient hospice […]
Hospices need to have solid documentation to demonstrate a patient’s need for general inpatient care (GIP) as regulatory oversight zeroes in on those services. GIP can involve longer stays and higher costs. For these reasons, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is launching a new audit […]
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently announced plans to launch a new audit that will focus on general inpatient hospice services. Longer general inpatient hospice stays and high-cost issues are reasons for the audit, dubbed the “Audit of Selected, High-Risk Medicare Hospice General Inpatient Services,” […]