Home Health Care News November 13, 2025
A Republican member of Congress has submitted a direct request to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to investigate home health fraud and reevaluate the data underpinning the proposed 2026 Medicare home health payment rule.
On Thursday, Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., submitted a letter to CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz calling for CMS to thoroughly investigate fraudulent billing practices in Los Angeles County, California. This investigation would ensure that fraud does not distort national home health payment policy, according to Tenney, who called the Medicare home health benefit “among the most efficient and humane parts of our health system.”
“I recently received alarming information documenting large-scale fraud in Los Angeles County’s home health sector,” she wrote. “Specifically, the...
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