Home health and hospice compliance alert - Winter 2021 1 In our last edition of the Compliance Alert (Spring 2020), COVID-19 was just beginning to be found in the United States. We were told, at the time, that the virus would not become a significant public health concern in the U.S. and that the country was well prepared from a public health standpoint. We were advised not to worry too much about what was mostly a health threat concentrated in other countries –famous last words. The U.S. is currently averaging 170,000 new COVID-19 cases and 3,000 deaths per day. Hospitals across the country are stretched to their limits. Frontline workers are fatigued and wondering when t

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