Home Health Line
11/12/2012
CMS is considering the adoption of readmission measures, the federal Medicare agency says in the final 2013 PPS rule.
 
11/12/2012
CMS has extended reporting requirements for home health agencies and hospices.
11/12/2012
CMS is implementing a change that ensures you’ll get the full payment you’re owed when partial episode payment (PEP) adjustments are erroneously applied to dual eligibles’ claims.
11/12/2012
HHL has boiled down the 298-page final rule into a quick reference tool to help you determine the impact of each change on your agency. For each change in the rule, this tool provides the section of the rule which contains it, as well as the proposed version of the change for a side-by-side comparison.
11/05/2012
Demonstrate that the care you provide to assisted living facility (ALF) patients doesn’t duplicate services provided by ALF staff to prevent overpayment demands from zone program integrity contractors (ZPICs).
 
11/05/2012
Some hospices are turning to contract nurses to staff on-call hours, even though contracting for on-call services violates a long-established Medicare rule.
 
11/05/2012
As home health margins continue to shrink, investing in a hospice can be one way to grow your business – if you do your due diligence to prevent previous owners’ mistakes from catching up with you and costing you up to $11,000 per day in false claims penalties.
 
11/05/2012
There is another way to lower risk when you acquire a potentially troubled hospice: Make it an asset purchase.
 
11/05/2012
Assess the home environment for fire hazards and conduct basic patient education on fire risks to prevent patient harm and reduce your agency’s liability risk in case of fire.
 
11/05/2012
Patients in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are less likely to be hospitalized than patients on traditional Medicare, but MA beneficiaries tend to do worse on key outcomes such as surgical wound improvement, bathing and ambulation.
 

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