Home Health Line
01/14/2013
A proposed IRS rule would put some limits to employers’ obligations to provide affordable health insurance coverage to employees under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
01/14/2013
A little-noticed provision of the congressional agreement reached earlier this month opens the door to auditors seeking to collect overpayments which are more than three years old.
 
01/14/2013
It wasn’t all M1024: A Grouper change effective for assessments completed on or after Jan. 1 means you’ll get more money for certain past episodes if you decide to adjust those claims.
 
01/14/2013
Home health tech experts see nothing but growth in 2013, and think the sooner you get in on it, the better off your agency will be.
 
01/14/2013
The data below show that marketing and staff training are the top budget priorities for agencies in 2013.
 
01/14/2013
Your clinicians need to understand what counts as a multi-discipline therapy case as opposed to a single-discipline therapy case when different disciplines start and stop throughout the episode. Failure to comply with this requirement could result in a loss of hundreds of dollars per episode.
 
01/14/2013
Say goodbye to the common working file (CWF): This year, CMS will transfer eligibility checks to a new system which is getting good marks from government watchdogs for the reliability of its service and information.
 
01/14/2013
If your agency is looking for a reprieve from ongoing Medicare payment cuts, consider diversifying your payer mix to include other revenue sources.
 
01/14/2013
The version of the hospice conditions of participation posted in the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (www.ecfr.gov) contains some errors.
01/14/2013
The following scenario was created by Trish Twombly, senior director for DecisionHealth in Gaithersburg, Md., to illustrate the impact of the additional case-mix and non-routine supply (NRS) points available for 173 diagnosis codes.

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