Home Health Line
08/11/2014
Use this form to capture face-to-face encounter information from physicians.
08/11/2014
Submit your notice of election (NOE) within five calendar days after the effective date of election or you won’t receive payment for those first days of care.
08/11/2014
Home health agencies remain divided on how to change the way they capture face-to-face documentation — or whether they should change anything at all.
08/11/2014
With fewer than five months to go until the postponed obligation of home care employers to provide health coverage for their workers under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) kicks in, the ACA’s impact on the industry remains clouded.
08/11/2014
More than one-third of home support agencies were undecided about how they’ll comply with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as of February 2014.
08/11/2014
Hospices, take note: CMS is due to publish its 2015 Hospice Facility Cost Report form (CMS-1984-14) by the end of the summer, but that won’t leave you much time to get ready to start reporting costs according to the new form in your next fiscal year.
08/11/2014
Recovery auditors (RACs) are going to resume auditing some claims now, rather than waiting for new RAC contracts to be awarded, CMS announced Aug. 4.
08/11/2014
Two U.S. Congressmen plan to send a letter to CMS administrator Marilyn Tavenner asking her to suspend claims denials caused by the existing physician narrative requirements of face-to-face documentation.
08/11/2014
The vast majority of the 348 respondents to HHL’s 2015 proposed PPS rule survey believe that face-to-face, case-mix and therapy changes will affect them more than the rule’s other major changes

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