Healthcare at Home: The Rowan Report

by H. Carol Saul Almost fifteen years ago, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) adopted a final rule requiring home health agencies (HHAs) to post surety bonds in the amount of $50,000, or 15% of the annual amount received from Medicare, whichever was greater. That regulation quickly faced opposition by Congress and by […]

The U.S. Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General has released a scathing report of home health billing practices. To place some controls on the degree of fraud and abuse it detected, OIG called for CMS to impose a moratorium on opening new home health care agencies in Texas and Florida, where it says […]