Home Health Care News July 11, 2022
The home health industry should keep its collective eye on the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of the Inspector General’s (HHS-OIG) recent audits on the hospice industry, because it soon could be next.
As the home health space continues to grow, federal oversight and the scrutiny attached to the industry have grown with it.
Experts at Husch Blackwell have followed this trend through the hospice industry, and have gleaned knowledge from that.
“As we have been following and reporting on those hospice audits, the OIG has been looking at the home health space as well,” Bryan Nowicki said this week on a podcast episode of Hospice Insights. “They’re very similar in overall structure with what we have...