Home Health Line
02/06/2012

A new CMS clarification significantly reduces the amount of costs your agency would swallow when a patient’s face-to-face encounter is late.

02/06/2012

In its fourth quarter OASIS Q&As, CMS provided the following sample scenario to shed light on how a late face-to-face encounter and reset OASIS affects your ability to bill for services.

02/06/2012

Agencies that depend on the so-called companionship exemption say they will make significant changes to their operations that could lead to fewer work hours for caregivers and access issues for clients if a proposed rule by the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division is finalized.

02/06/2012

Take steps now to reduce the chances that you’ll be the target of a Zone Program Integrity Contractor (ZPIC) audit. If you’re not careful, you could end up owing the government $1 million or more in overpayments.

02/06/2012

You don’t want to be caught unawares by a letter informing you that you’re the subject of a Zone Program Integrity Contractor (ZPIC) audit.

02/06/2012

Medicare payment for episodes that began in 2011 and end in 2012 could be significantly different from your projections, but case-mix change and other variables make the ultimate effect on individual agencies hard to predict.

02/06/2012

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