Healthcare Market Resources Identifies Outliers As a Major Source of Abuse in the Healthcare System
As the government looks for ways to reform our nation’s healthcare system, finding and eliminating current sources of waste and abuse is now a top priority. Using Healthcare Market Resources’ data, we identify and quantify a major source of abuse — outlier payments made under the home health benefit.
Read our article (originally published in our September 2009 Newsletter) to learn more about our findings, as well as new policy proposals by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) designed to address potential fraud and abuse regarding outlier payments.
See the Full Medicare Outlier Chart
Click on the Healthcare Market Resources’ Outlier chart for the percentages of outlier payments per state, clearly indicating a disproportionate dispersal of outlier funds and evidence of abuse in the system.
