tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2012 Issue 21

Home Health Regulations: Brace For More Monetary And Compliance Burdens

Surety bonds could close your doors if OIG implements this requirement ruthlessly.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services had finalized in 1998 a surety bond requirement for home health agencies that Congress passed way back in 1997's Balanced Budget Act but had to put it on hold. The HHS Office of Inspector General wants it implemented now."The surety bond requirement is an important program integrity tool that provides a sentinel effect of keeping fraudulent providers out of the program and a means for Medicare to guarantee recoupment of some overpayments," says the OIG in its report...

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