More than 400,000 seniors and medically fragile individuals in Pennsylvania rely on home care – but caregivers and nurses are leaving the industry at an alarming rate to work in neighboring states or settings that offer more competitive wages. The Pennsylvania Homecare Association (PHA) attributes this trend to the state’s average reimbursement rate for these […]
Health and Human Services
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Wednesday that over $40 billion in additional funding would be provided to reimburse health care providers during the COVID-19 crisis. A chunk of that money will go to further support home health agencies. To distribute the $40 billion, HHS plans to allocate $20 billion for […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will issue $106.7 million this year in grant awards to 46 states to expand home visiting services to women during pregnancy and to parents with young children up to age five. Grant awards also apply to the District of Columbia, and five jurisdictions as part of the Maternal, Infant, […]
Techota, LLC has agreed to pay $150,000 in a federal lawsuit that it violated the False Claims Act by fraudulently billing Medicare for unnecessary services. The lawsuit stems from allegations that Techota made false claims for payments to Medicare for home health services that were not medically reasonable or necessary, or were not provided under […]
Health care fraud has been on the rise in the last three years, even more so in 2012 than others, according to a report released today by the Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Health and Human Services (HHS). Recovering a record-breaking amount of taxpayers’ dollars from health care-related fraud, DOJ and HHS returned $4.2 billion […]
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