Home Health Line Breaking News
03/20/2012

CMS will offer two free webinars to help hospices prepare for quality reporting.

Data collection for the mandatory reporting phase is set to begin in October.

03/15/2012

Providers have three more months until enforcement of the new 5010 claim submission standard begins, CMS announced March 15.

As a result, providers who submit claims in the old 4010 format through June 30 will not be penalized.

03/15/2012

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's (MedPAC) annual report largely reiterates the recommendations it made to Congress last year.

For hospice, the commission recommends a 2013 payment update of 0.5%, as previously reported in HHL.

03/14/2012

Expect stepped-up scrutiny of your claims by payment and fraud contractors following a new report by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG).

The OIG’s analysis of 2008 home health claims found that 22% were submitted in error.

03/12/2012

A new rule from HHS will change the way your agency shops for employees' health insurance starting in 2014.

That's when states will be required to establish so-called insurance exchanges, which will allow individuals and small businesses to shop for different health insurance packages, according to a fact sheet on the rule released March 12.

 

03/08/2012

Palmetto GBA has implemented a fix for an issue that caused incorrect denials for claims following additional documentation requests (ADRs).

Agencies billing to Palmetto had seen denials for failing to respond to ADRs within the 30-day deadline, even when supporting documentation showed that the responses were timely.

03/07/2012

New details on the ICD-10 delay were scarce at the ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting in Baltimore on March 5.

CMS has yet to decide how much extra time there will be or whether the current partial code freeze on ICD-9 will be lifted.

03/05/2012

CMS has been working on implementing fines and other less severe punishments for agencies with survey deficiencies that don’t warrant termination from Medicare – since 1987.

A new report by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) now takes CMS to task for its lack of action.

02/24/2012

Three of the four Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) have begun work on home health audits, HHL has learned.

02/24/2012

Dead on arrival” once again is the House Republican mantra in response to President Obama’s latest budget, for fiscal 2013.

Login

User Name:
Password: