Home Health Line
01/20/2014
Agencies that have Medicare reimbursement tied up in appeals will have to wait two-and-a-half years or more before an administrative law judge (ALJ) will address them, the HHS Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) is warning providers.
01/20/2014
It could take your clinicians less time to complete patient assessment forms if CMS adopts the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) recommendations for a unified assessment tool and payment system for post-acute care (PAC) providers.
 
01/20/2014
 Agencies may have been incurring delays in Medicare enrollment and notification of appeal decisions hearings because of Medicare Administrative Contractors’ (MAC) failure to meet CMS-imposed administrative deadlines, which the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) criticizes in a recent study of MAC performance.
 
01/20/2014
 As your agency prepares for ICD-10, make an extra effort to support your quality improvement (QI) managers and clinical supervisors.
01/20/2014
One way to make sure that you are at the top of a search list is by creating a blog and making every blog post count.
 
01/20/2014
 Agencies can’t charge patients for services that are denied by Medicare because the referring physicians aren’t enrolled in the Internet-based Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS).
01/20/2014
Listing a diagnosis, along with a brief notation of some aspect of a patient’s condition or general phrases, such as “taxing effort to leave home,” are not sufficient to justify homebound status in face-to-face documentation, CMS says in a Jan. 14 MLN Matters article.
01/20/2014
The roles of quality improvement (QI) managers and clinical supervisors will take on increased importance as agencies transition to ICD-10.

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