Home Health Line
06/25/2012

CMS will give at least 60 days’ notice before it turns on denials for claims where referring physicians are not enrolled in the provider enrollment, chain and ownership system (PECOS).

The June report of the Medicare Payment Advisory commission (MedPAC) is out.

06/25/2012

Three out of four agencies received fewer than five additional documentation requests (ADRs) from a Medicare contractor in the past year, according to HHL’s 2012 productivity survey.

 

06/25/2012

Be the first to understand how the Supreme Court ruling will impact your agency during this FREE Subscriber-only live chat featuring Robert W. Markette, Jr., CHC on Friday, June 29, 2012 from 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. ET.

06/19/2012

Include a flyer like this one in your admission packet to raise patient awareness of the Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HH-CAHPS) survey and improve your response rates. The flyer was created by Lori Moshier, president of HH-CAHPS vendor Novaetus in Novi, Mich.

06/18/2012

Patient steering by hospitals and other providers to favored agencies remains alive and well, even though such tactics often violate Medicare conditions of participation (CoPs) and federal antitrust laws.

06/18/2012

It’s time to closely review your plans of care for specificity and conciseness: The two standards surveyors cited most often in 2011 both relate to deficiencies of the plan of care.

06/18/2012

Implement a consistent policy that protects patient privacy and prevents legal risks if you decide to engage in wound photography. 

06/18/2012

The new calculation method also will change the start and end dates for counting beneficiaries attributed to each cap year, CMS clarifies in its June 1 transmittal.

06/18/2012

Individual hospice patients who receive services over several cap years will have visits apportioned to each year beginning with the 2012 cap year. 

06/18/2012

New CMS data show that the most common standard-level citations in 2011 were related to deficiencies in the plan of care. 

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