title: Publication of OIG Special Fraud Alert: fraud and abuse in nursing home arrangements with hospices--OIG. Notice.
abstract: This Federal Register notice sets forth a recently issued OIG Special Fraud Alert concerning fraud and abuse practices involving nursing home arrangements with hospices. For the most part, OIG Special Fraud Alerts address national trends in health care fraud, including potential violations of the Medicare anti-kickback statute. This Special Fraud Alert, issued to the health care provider community and now being reprinted in this issue of the Federal Register, specifically identifies and highlights some vulnerabilities in nursing home arrangements with hospices and instances of potential kickbacks between nursing homes and hospices to influence the referral of patients.
mesh_terms: D005607:Fraud / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006738:Hospices / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008484:Medicaid; D006278:Medicare; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States; D014483:United States Dept. of Health and Human Services