Home Health Line
05/14/2012

Don’t clutter your face-to-face encounter form with examples and background information – docs would rather have a short, clean form and ask you questions about it in person or on the phone.

05/14/2012

One in five patients with a diagnosis of heart failure is hospitalized during the first week of home health care, new data from OCS HomeCare in Seattle show.

05/14/2012

Palmetto GBA has released some of the reimbursement tied up in its recent wave of additional documentation requests (ADRs), but don’t cheer yet: The intermediary now is telling agencies it still could recoup some of those payments.

05/14/2012

Agencies can’t add a title to face-to-face encounter documentation to make sure auditors can identify it as such.

05/14/2012

The government seems to be taking a tougher line on beneficiaries who accept money to pose as bona fide home health patients. 

05/14/2012

Adopt disease management protocols for heart failure patients on high-risk medications to benefit from hospitals’ increasing focus on readmission penalties. 

05/14/2012

Beware of physicians who try to charge you a fee for completing face-to-face encounter documentation. 

05/14/2012

Make sure you know how to complete Medicare’s 855A enrollment form to avoid losing your billing privileges if you miss your revalidation deadline.

05/14/2012

Starting Oct. 1, home health agencies and hospices must use occurrence code 55.

05/14/2012

Use this chart to help you determine your agency’s indirect ownership when you file form 855A. The tool was created by HHL and William Cuppett, CPA and managing member at The Health Group in Morgantown, W. Va.

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