Home-based hospice operators welcome CMS anti-fraud efforts

Home-based hospice operators welcome CMS anti-fraud efforts 
Home Health Care News; by Joyce Famakinwa; 7/24/25 
In an effort to combat fraud, the hospice industry may see increased scrutiny from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Home-based care providers that offer hospice services, including AccentCare and Elara Caring, told Home Health Care News they hope that CMS will act on their statements about bad actors in the industry – and that a crackdown would protect “high-integrity” providers. ... Companies like AccentCare, which offer both home health and hospice services, welcome CMS’s active approach to rooting out fraud. “We hope it materializes,” Dr. Balu Natarajan, chief medical officer at AccentCare, told HHCN. ... Similar to AccentCare, Elara Caring believes that this would be a step in the right direction. “We fully support CMS’s efforts to crack down on fraud in hospice and home health,” an Elara Caring spokesperson told HHCN in an email.