The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General ("OIG"), has made pursuing fraud in the personal care services ("PCS") sector a top priority, including making it a focus of their FY2017 workplan.
Last week, OIG released a report, Medicaid Fraud Control Units Fiscal Year 2016 Annual Report, which set forth the number and type of investigations and prosecutions conducted nationwide by the Medicaid Fraud Control Units ("MFCUs") during FY 2016. Overall, the MFCUs reported 1,564 convictions, over one-third of which involved PCS attendants; fraud cases ...
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