title: Home care physician referrals: a guide for home health providers.
abstract: By exercising a strong due diligence process before making referrals to physicians providing house calls, home care agencies can protect themselves, patients, the industry's reputation, and Medicare funds from fraud and abuse by groups seeking to enter the field for the money they can make.
authors.affiliation: Senior Health Care Associates, PC, Southfield, MI, USA.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Baron
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005607:Fraud / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006123:Group Practice / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D018574:Home Care Agencies / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006792:House Calls / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States