This customizable document, Introduction, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Home Care Corporate Compliance Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

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	INTRODUCTION The home health industry has come under intense scrutiny in recent years by government regulatory bodies. The Inspector General has announced that health care crime is second only to crimes of violence. Although the home health industry is highly regulated by Federal, State and local laws and regulations, it is also one that has a high vulnerability to fraud and abuse. Why? Because although the industry is highly regulated, the health care services and care that is provided is without walls, meaning that the care and services we provide are provided in a plethora of venues even...
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	...care and services we provide are provided in a plethora of venues even though all are provided in patients' residences. Thus, we have no standard physical structure in which to practice, permitting our practitioners the exciting autonomy to practice according to guidelines and therein lies the rub. There is not constant surveillance of what is occurring in the delivery of patient care and services. In order for agencies to protect themselves from fraud and abuse, it is good business...