Home Health Line
04/01/2013
Three in four home health agencies would receive denials under the pending provider enrollment, chain and ownership system (PECOS) edit.
 
04/01/2013
If you retaliate against an employee to avoid penalties under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), you could find yourself stuck with those penalties and an additional compensatory damage award, as well as other costs, under a new interim final rule to protect whistleblowers.
 
04/01/2013
Educate physicians and their staff about the new codes for transitional care management (TCM) services using a mixture of written education and face-to-face conversations with marketers.
 
04/01/2013
Adopting a paid-time-off (PTO) plan or capping sick days can help reduce or eliminate sick time abuse and ease the tribulations of staffing disruptions. However, make sure you’re in compliance with local laws and choose a plan that makes sense for your workforce and needs.
 
04/01/2013
The state of Connecticut and the cities of San Francisco, Washington D.C., Philadelphia and Seattle all have enacted mandatory sick leave laws in the past few years.
 
04/01/2013
The data below show how many days of paid time off (PTO) agency employees receive on average, based on their years of service with the agency.
04/01/2013
Starting April 1, Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) will return claims where there is a mismatch between the health insurance claim number (HICN) with the beneficiary’s name, sex, date of birth or other personal characteristics, as listed in the common working file.
03/25/2013
Expect CMS to issue several long-awaited releases in the coming months – including a draft of OASIS-C1, additional guidance on how new survey sanctions will be implemented and revised conditions of participation for home health.
 
03/25/2013
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) annual report to Congress includes a recommendation for a copay for certain episodes and a speedup of rebasing. Those recommendations were included in two previous reports, but could take on new significance as Congress looks for “doc fix” savings.
 
03/25/2013
It’s become more important than ever to ensure hospice cost reports are accurate: A CMS contractor is analyzing cost report data to glean information for payment reform.
 

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