Alert: Improper Arrangements & Conduct Involving Home Health Agencies & Physicians
On June 22, 2016, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released this alert to Medicare home health provider organizations and physicians supervising home health services. The OIG emphasized that home health provider organizations and physicians that wish to enter into compensation arrangements for services provided must ensure that those arrangements and the payments under them are fair market value and commercially reasonable in the absence of federal health care program referrals . . .
