Newsletter Articles | January 31, 2017
The Hospice Benefit for Dually Eligible Beneficiaries
Editorial note: This Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General's (OIG) Advisory Opinion No. 16-08 by Gregory E. Demske Chief Counsel to the Inspector General was posted on July 27, 2016 in response to a request for an advisory opinion regarding an arrangement in which a hospice would make a supplemental payment to the nursing facilities in which the hospice’s dually eligible patients reside when the nursing facilities—instead of the hospice—receive payment for their patients’ room and board expenses (the “Proposed Arrangement”). The name of the requesting organization has been . . .