Home Health Line
09/16/2013
Agencies nationwide are concerned that item M1309 (Worsening in pressure ulcer status since start-of-care/resumption-of-care), which is similarly collected now in column two of M1308 (Current number of unhealed pressure ulcers), lacks an “Unstageable” response option.
 
 
09/16/2013
The home health industry needs to make a strong case for its role as an efficient and cost-effective source of post-acute care as Congress looks for ways to find Medicare savings to offset the $138 billion cost over 10 years of fixing the flawed sustainable growth rate formula for setting physician payments.
 
09/16/2013
The average Medicare payment is being delayed by as much as two weeks compared to three years ago, and there’s one big reason why — the face-to-face requirements.
 
09/16/2013
Although home health agencies have historically been scarcely affected by recovery audit contractor (RAC) claim reviews, they should prepare for that to change.
 
09/16/2013
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) is, for the second time, calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to seek statutory or regulatory timeframes for conducting hospice surveys every three years, to match the CMS-approved timeframe set by accrediting organizations.
 

The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) is, for the second time, calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to seek statutory or regulatory timeframes for conducting hospice surveys every three years, to match the CMS-approved timeframe set by accrediting organizations.

 
09/16/2013
It takes about two weeks longer to collect payments from commercial payers than it does to collect from Medicare.

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