“Home care groups CRUSH plans for more anti-fraud requirements,” by Foster Stubbs, McKnights Home Care
“A pair of major home care organizations say that federal regulators simply have to enforce rules already in place rather than impose burdensome new administrative requirements in order to beef up fraud prevention and monitoring practices. The National Alliance for Care at Home and LeadingAge laid out a series of recommendations to improve federal fraud prevention practices. They also answered direct questions posed by officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in a Request for Information submitted regarding its Comprehensive Regulations to Uncover Suspicious Healthcare, or CRUSH, Initiative.”
LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform:
Industry trade associations bend over backwards to avoid scrutiny of home care and hospice fraud they ignored entirely before the Paragon Health Institute and CMS targeted the problems. For a more objective take on this issue, see “Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Government Health Care Programs is No Joke,” by Brian Blase, Paragon Health Institute.