The owners and operators of several Miami home health care agencies—including a former Miami Vice actor—pleaded guilty on Sept. 5 in connection with a health care fraud scheme involving Trust Care Health Services Inc., a now-defunct home health care company. Roberto Marrero, Sandra Fernandez Viera, and Enrique Rodriguez all pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge […]
Category: Medicare
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has once again delayed the face-to-face requirement for durable medical equipment providers in working with Medicare patients, pushing the requirement indefinitely until more information is given in 2014. CMS said additional concerns about the implementation time frame for the new requirements, set under the Affordable Care Act, […]
Last week the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requesting more evidence to back up the agency’s estimate for the impact of its proposed rule to adjust the home health prospective payment system. CMS published a proposed rule on July 3, 2013 […]
Fears of closing and possible mergers are on the minds of home health agencies as they are expected to operate under proposed Medicare cuts, reports Crain’s Detroit Business. The resulting impact under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule can lead to many home health agencies either closing their doors or as acquisition opportunities […]
An owner of a Dallas-area home health agency was sentenced 10 years in federal prison for defrauding Medicare, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Cyprian Akamnonu, 64, of Cedar Hill, Texas, was ordered to pay $25,466,779 in restitution, following his guilty plea in October 2012 to one count of conspiracy to commit health care […]
Seniors vastly oppose additional cuts to the Medicare home health benefit, with nearly 90% voicing concerns that cuts would do more harm than good, according to new polling data from Bring the Vote Home. An initiative created to help seniors, disabled Americans, their family members and their home healthcare clinicians participate in the nation’s democratic […]
The home health sector accounted for nearly a third of all health care job growth in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ most recent jobs report. Since 2012, home health has contributed more than 93,000 new jobs to the U.S. economy, with 9,500 added in August. That represents more than 30% of the […]
Two employees of a Miami home health care company pleaded guilty on Tuesday for their roles in a $48 million home health Medicare fraud scheme, the Justice Department announced. Elizabeth Monteagudo and Cristobal Gonzalez, both of Miami, worked as patient recruiters for Caring Nurse Home Health Care Corp., according to court documents. Gonzalez also worked […]
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is partnering with several home health care trade associations to provide resources to industry participants outlining the financial impact of proposed home health rebasing that would cut Medicare reimbursements by 14%. NAHC’s Legislative Action Network has teamed up with the Alliance for Home Health Quality and […]
The CEO of Mobile Doctors, a company that manages physicians who make house calls, and one of its Chicago-based physicians were arrested this week for their alleged roles in a health care fraud scheme amounting to millions of dollars bilked from Medicare. The charges allege that the company, which is based in Chicago and makes […]
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