Home Health Line
03/25/2013
Expect CMS to issue several long-awaited releases in the coming months – including a draft of OASIS-C1, additional guidance on how new survey sanctions will be implemented and revised conditions of participation for home health.
 
03/25/2013
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) annual report to Congress includes a recommendation for a copay for certain episodes and a speedup of rebasing. Those recommendations were included in two previous reports, but could take on new significance as Congress looks for “doc fix” savings.
 
03/25/2013
It’s become more important than ever to ensure hospice cost reports are accurate: A CMS contractor is analyzing cost report data to glean information for payment reform.
 
03/25/2013
The analysis below shows how the hospice face-to-face encounter requirement has impacted hospice benefit periods. Encounters are mandatory before the third and subsequent benefit periods.
 
03/25/2013
The two tags CMS cited most often on hospice surveys in 2012 both pertain to the plan of care.
 
03/25/2013
How many digital fax/printer/copier machines do you have at your agency’s office that might have been used to print or copy protected health information? That’s how many hard drives will need to be either regularly wiped clean or otherwise protected against outside breaches to ensure your agency stays compliant with the recently released “mega-rule.”
 
03/25/2013
CMS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are urging providers to implement special contact precautions for patients infected with carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE). Failure to implement those precautions when CRE is suspected could cause infections to spread – a potentially disastrous outcome for agencies, given the high death rates associated with CRE.
 
03/25/2013
CMS has officially awarded the region D home health and hospice workload to NGS.

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