Saturday, May 25, 2013
 10.4.11  A Senate Finance Committee report says two publicly traded home health companies in Baton Rouge and Lafayette encouraged therapists to make the most profitable number of patient visits, even when the patients' needs may not have justified the treatments.  The committee report named Amedisys Inc., of Baton Rouge, LHC Group Inc., of Lafayette, as well as Gentiva, of Atlanta. Each company showed concentrated numbers of therapy visits at or just above the point at which a "bonus" payment was triggered in the Medicare payment system, according to the report.  Read the entire article at the Advocate.

 

 

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Senate report attacks practice

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