Home Health Line
05/13/2013
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Justice Department both have an eye on hospices whose patients have long lengths of stay at the general inpatient (GIP) level of care, especially when GIP is provided in hospice inpatient units.
 
05/13/2013
Alleged False Claims Act violations by Vitas Hospice Services and its parent, Chemed Corp., caused Medicare to misspend “tens of millions of taxpayer dollars,” according to a complaint filed by the Justice Department May 3.
 
05/13/2013
Some home health agencies that recently had their request for anticipated payment (RAP) dollars suppressed by Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) Palmetto GBA will be immediately eligible for reinstatement.
 
05/13/2013
As the home health industry seeks ways to work with hospitals to prevent readmissions, more and more agencies are turning to telehealth as a viable option.
 
05/13/2013
Nearly two-thirds of home health agencies have some form of telehealth or will buy by the end of 2014, compared with about half of respondents on a similar survey six years ago.
 
05/13/2013
Is Medicare paying hospices too much compared with their costs of care? CMS is proposing a significant expansion of what information needs to be included on cost reports to answer that question.
 
05/13/2013
CMS’ May 8 home health open-door forum included announcements on new hospice coding instructions and the status of OASIS-C1.
05/08/2013
CMS will soon issue additional instructions regarding the use of debility and adult failure to thrive in the principal diagnosis slot of hospice claims, CMS staffers said at a May 8 open-door forum call.
 
05/06/2013
Hospices would see a 1.1% increase in their payments in fiscal 2014 under CMS’ proposed wage index, published April 29. But they also would be faced with a plethora of new requirements, including a standard patient assessment instrument and a survey to measure satisfaction with hospice care.
 
05/06/2013
You might no longer have to report information on inpatient procedure codes and the dimensions of the patient’s largest pressure ulcer under OASIS-C1. However, CMS also could add a new item whose purpose is unknown so far.
 

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