Home Health Line
07/05/2010

Some good news for home health agencies: CMS won’t automatically reject your claims if referring physicians aren’t enrolled in the provider enrollment, chain and ownership system (PECOS).

07/05/2010

It shouldn’t be the agency’s responsibility to determine whether a patient had a face-to-face physician visit in the six months prior to home health.

07/05/2010

Home health agencies can expect more details about the ambiguous accountable care organizations (ACOs) in a proposed rule this fall.

07/05/2010

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07/05/2010

Yet another short-term reprieve, this one for five months through Nov. 30, is the latest action by Congress to dodge the threatened 21% physician pay cuts.

07/05/2010

Providers have successfully won 64.4% of appeal of recovery audit contractor overpayments, according to new data from CMS’s three-year RAC demonstration.

07/05/2010

Seven indicted in alleged $5 million fraud scheme in Houston. The scheme involved paying kickbacks for recruiting Medicare beneficiaries for home health services at Family Healthcare Services in Houston, according

07/05/2010

Claims with V57.1 (other physical therapy) as a primary diagnosis are being singled out by regional home health intermediaries, coding experts report.

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