Hospices Inappropriately Billed Medicare Over $250 Million For General Inpatient Care

The report was released in March 2016, by the U.S. Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services. In this report, the OIG sought to determine the extent to which hospices inappropriately billed Medicare for the general inpatient care (GIP) level of hospice care in 2012; to determine the extent to which hospices did not meet care planning requirements for beneficiaries receiving GIP in 2012; and to describe instances in which hospices provided poor-quality care . . .