Home Health Line
05/21/2012

Be careful when you turn down prospective employees based on a criminal record. New government guidance makes it clear that you could be opening your agency to a discrimination suit.

05/21/2012

CMS is giving you new advice on how to submit a successful reconsideration request if you face a 2% reduction to your payments in the following year.

05/21/2012

New data from OCS HomeCare in Seattle show what percentage of 2011 episodes garnered case-mix points for agencies on the M1800 items.

05/21/2012

Starting this fall, Medicare contractors will be able to hold claims for processing until they can confirm the HIPPS code is correct.

05/21/2012

Amedisys’ latest quarterly filing hints at a violation of the Stark law.

Review your files for any claims submitted between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2011 with the new dementia codes 240.20 and 240.21.

05/21/2012

American-Mercy Home Care in Cincinnati used the following scenario to train clinicians on accurate completion of the M1800 items. The scenario was provided by Arlynn Hansell, the agency’s program manager, clinical excellence.

05/14/2012

Don’t clutter your face-to-face encounter form with examples and background information – docs would rather have a short, clean form and ask you questions about it in person or on the phone.

05/14/2012

One in five patients with a diagnosis of heart failure is hospitalized during the first week of home health care, new data from OCS HomeCare in Seattle show.

05/14/2012

Palmetto GBA has released some of the reimbursement tied up in its recent wave of additional documentation requests (ADRs), but don’t cheer yet: The intermediary now is telling agencies it still could recoup some of those payments.

05/14/2012

Agencies can’t add a title to face-to-face encounter documentation to make sure auditors can identify it as such.

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