Home Care Fraud under the Whistleblower Spotlight
These steps in the right direction affirm the widespread abuse of the elderly and other taxpayers occurring in the home-health industry. Whistleblowers in hospice, home-care and other long term care facility environments have been central to this change of attitude. Those fraudsters who are intent on defrauding the government will attempt to do so under any payment regime, but efforts to make it more difficult are to be applauded. — Shayne Stevenson, Head of Whistleblower Practice
"The government and the home-care industry have been working to combat fraud by putting a hold on approving new centers in some areas of the country, capping certain types of government payments to agencies and using data analyses to uncover foul play. Some say the move toward value-based payments and away from fee-for-service might make committing such fraud more difficult, while others say it may just change the character of the fraud." Full article »
