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Uintah Home Health and Hospice patients began receiving services under the Canyon umbrella earlier this month. The home health and hospice provider is part of the homecare service line of Uintah Basin Healthcare. We are honored to have provided care to our home health and hospice patients and their loved ones.
Instant Care provided an extraordinary opportunity to move into non-medical homecare in one of the most desirable markets in the United States.”. Veterans programs and managed care organizations also have become more involved in the space. Choice entered the home health market in 2012 and stepped into hospice in 2018.
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule designed to strengthen oversight of those institutions. Some in the hospice space have maintained that accreditors should be able to provide such education, but they should not be paid services, including the National Association for HomeCare & Hospice (NAHC).
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Justice Department accused the pair of submitting thousands of false claims to Medicare and of arranging more than $2 million in kickbacks in exchange for referrals. In total, Atoyan, Karapetyan and others caused the agencies to submit over 8,000 claims to Medicare for the cost of home health care and hospice services. “In
The first report shook the industry with findings that around 20% of hospices surveyed by regulators or accreditors between 2012 and 2016 had a deficiency that posed a serious safety risk. Many established services for the purpose of selling the license at a profit or defrauding Medicare. In response, the U.S.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has honed in on hospice program integrity, rolling out a swath of new measures to reduce fraud, waste and abuse in the space. A report from OIG found that roughly one-third of Medicare claims for hospice GIP services are billed in error, the OIG indicated.
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Utah-headquartered Canyon HomeCare & Hospice has acquired Arizona-based internal medicine practice Thomas G. Established in 2012, Canyon’s service region stretches across locations in Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho and Nevada. Dallman, M.D., LLC for an undisclosed sum. By 2050, nearly 2.5
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