Chair cites 'positive pay' controls and hospice fraud cases as examples for better data

Jun 25, 2026

The committee chair described a 'positive pay' control used at his county and flagged hospice fraud patterns (multiple hospices sharing P.O. boxes, repeated patient enrollments) that better data could have revealed, urging stronger pre-payment checks.

The full story

The committee chair described a local payment-control mechanism and said similar approaches could reduce improper federal payments.

Free newsletter

Sign up to keep reading.

Your free newsletter brings you what your city council, county, and school board discussed and decided.

or
Already have an account? Sign in