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AAHomecare Offers 13-Point Plan to Stop Medicare Fraud
ARLINGTON, Va. — The American Association for Homecare is hoping 13 will be HME's lucky number, at least when it comes to healing the industry's black eye from fraud and abuse.
On Friday, the association unveiled a 13-point plan it believes could eliminate most of the Medicare fraud attributed to the HME sector.
"The home care sector has zero tolerance for illegal activity, and we are frustrated that the problem seems to be growing rather than shrinking," said Tyler J. Wilson, AAHomecare president and CEO. "Taxpayer dollars lost to fraud represent theft of resources needed by seniors and people with disabilities. So, we are sharing these aggressive new recommendations with Medicare and its contractors, Congress, the Department of Justice, and the FBI in the hope that we can keep criminals away from the Medicare program."
AAHomecare's 13 specific recommendations include:
