Hospice Insights: The Law and Beyond

Hospice Audit Updates: Hospices Fare Well in Federal Court

Episode Summary

Increasing audit activity combined with certain decreasingly favorable audit appeal outcomes has resulted in hospices appealing audit results beyond the administrative law judge phase and into federal court. In this episode, Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske and Bryan Nowicki discuss the circumstances that gave rise to hospices taking their cases to federal court, how those cases are playing out, and what the future looks like.

Episode Notes

Increasing audit activity combined with certain decreasingly favorable audit appeal outcomes has resulted in hospices appealing audit results beyond the administrative law judge phase and into federal court. In this episode, Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske and Bryan Nowicki discuss the circumstances that gave rise to hospices taking their cases to federal court, how those cases are playing out, and what the future looks like.