Home Health Line
10/15/2012

Months after a $375 million fraud indictment, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has unsealed two new indictments alleging large-scale fraud based on phony physician referrals in the Dallas area.

10/15/2012

Teach clinicians to recognize and prevent risk factors for foodborne illnesses. Such illnesses may be more common among your patients than you thought, a recent study shows.  

10/15/2012

CMS has established a new data exchange process that will enable Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) to check for missing or incorrect OASIS forms before paying claims.

10/15/2012

Correction: The story “Do more with less by expanding your hospice volunteer services” in the Oct. 8 issue of HHL incorrectly stated the location of All-Heart Home Health & Hospice as West Haven, Conn. The agency is actually located in Norfolk, Va.

10/15/2012

Print the sheet below on brightly colored paper and staple it to your face-to-face form to help physicians document correctly, recommends Arlene Maxim, founder of A.D. Maxim & Associates in Troy, Mich., who created the half sheet.

10/15/2012

Of 157 agencies who responded to HHL’s recent survey, 47.4% indicated they had received at least one denial relating to the face-to-face encounter requirement.

10/15/2012

Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) CGS Administrators responded to HHL’s request for comment on the scope of new widespread hospice edits with the following information.

10/08/2012

CMS is “currently evaluating its options” for implementing a requirement that home health agencies purchase surety bonds to help the government recover Medicare overpayments.

10/08/2012

Agencies nationwide have made few therapy utilization changes in response to case-mix adjustments in the final 2012 PPS rule, a new analysis by OCS HomeCare in Seattle shows.

10/08/2012

The data below show the percentage of home health episodes provided in the first half of 2011 and 2012, respectively, broken down by therapy visit ranges.

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