Home Health Line
05/20/2013
A new advisory bulletin from the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) spells out more clearly what the government expects you to do to avoid billing for services provided or ordered by excluded individuals. Billing for such services is subject to penalties of up to $10,000 per item or service furnished by the excluded individual, plus three times that amount in damages and loss of your Medicare certification.
 
05/20/2013
Start formulating your training and implementation plan for the Hospice Item Set (HIS) now that CMS has published a draft version of the assessment forms it wants you to complete for patients admitted on or after July 1, 2014. Even with thorough preparation for the HIS, you might face years of productivity loss as clinicians and office staff learn how to best collect and input the data, experts warn.
 
05/20/2013
The admission version of the Hospice Item Set (HIS) is broken down into the following six sections.
 
05/20/2013
Home health agencies that had their request for anticipated payment (RAP) dollars suppressed by Palmetto GBA but later were reinstated will be eligible to resubmit the RAPs paid at $0 during the time they were suppressed, according to the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).
 
05/20/2013
ConfiCare Home Health Solutions has used Cloud-based software for electronic medical records, billing and scheduling for about three years and has seen increased productivity and savings in terms of pure capital costs and maintenance.
 
05/20/2013
Some 42% of agencies had less than $50,000 to work with as they planned their IT spending for this year, including IT salaries and vendor fees.
05/20/2013
Question: Who gets hit with the 2% sequester reduction for Medicare Advantage (MA), my agency or the plans that refer patients to me?
 
05/20/2013
Agencies again are reporting issues with their outlier payments.

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