Takeaways from the HHS OIG’s Hospice Vulnerabilities Portfolio Report is proudly presented to you by National Association for Home Care & Hospice. Thank you. We hope that you enjoy your course.
In November 2018, the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a report entitled “Vulnerabilities in the Medicare Hospice Affect Quality Care and Program Integrity – An OIG Portfolio.” The following month, in its semi-annual Report to Congress, the OIG described the Portfolio Report as “a seminal report…to spur improvements in the quality and integrity of care that hospices offer.” Although the report is based, in some cases, on dated information, it provides a blueprint for hospice risk assessment and compliance work plan development. Anyone interested in hospice compliance should be familiar with the report.
Learning Outcomes:
•Identify key OIG concerns about hospice vulnerabilities;
•Explain the recommendations contained in the report; and
•Assess their hospice program against a checklist of indicators taken from the report that could be incorporated in a hospice compliance assessment plan.
Faculty:
Kathleen Hessler, RN, JD, CHC, CHPC
William Musick, MBA, CHC, CHPC