Home Health Line
03/31/2014
Home health is looking at a big financial hit for the care of non-healing surgical wounds after Oct. 1.
03/31/2014
Agency reps who attended the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) March on Washington conference March 23 – 26 had two main agenda items: revising face-to-face requirements and easing future rebasing.
03/31/2014
CMS’ ICD-10 testing week, which ended March 7, gave providers and software vendors a chance to see whether they could transmit a small number of claims with ICD-10 codes.
03/31/2014
If you have strong evidence that a hospital is failing to offer patients a reasonable choice of post-acute care providers, contact its CEO or ask your state survey agency to conduct a complaint survey.
 
03/31/2014
Medicare administrative contractor CGS denied 1,176 of 1,377 claims it reviewed as part of its widespread edits involving face-to-face documentation between July 1 and Dec. 31, data recently released show
03/31/2014
03/24/2014
by: Sharon Litwin
The following are sample plans of correction provided by Sharon Litwin of 5 Star Consultants.
03/24/2014
Increases in citations involving several conditions of participation occurred in 2013, including the most common deficiency, G0156 (Acceptance of patients, plan of care and medical supervision).
 
03/24/2014
CMS has released much-anticipated guidance providing further clarity about punishment it can impose in the wake of state surveyors identifying deficiencies at home health agencies. The guidance provides more insight into the operational independence agencies could lose and into daily fines, which could reach $10,000 a day. 
 
 
03/24/2014
State surveyors conducting Medicare surveys issued even more condition-level deficiencies for G0156 (acceptance of patients, plan of care and medical supervision) in 2013 than they did in 2012. If the trend continues, it could be financially devastating for home health agencies once new survey sanctions begin July 1.
 
 

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