Home Health Line
07/23/2012

If your agency learns or suspects that a referral source, employee or patient is doing something illegal, heads up: you may be liable yourself – or make your liability worse – if you don’t report it. 

07/23/2012

CMS is implementing a new safeguard to protect the privacy of patients who respond to the Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HH-CAHPS) survey.

 

07/23/2012

Clarification: The story “CMS proposes fines up to $10,000 per day, other penalties for survey deficiencies” in last week’s HHL stated that it is up to surveyors to decide which sanctions to impose on an agency. While sanctions are based on the surveyor’s findings, the proposed rule states only that CMS will make the determination on which sanctions to impose and does not specifically identify the surveyor as the individual in charge of the decision.

07/19/2012

Use this flowchart from the Kaiser Family Foundation to determine the penalties your agency may be subject to starting in 2014.

07/16/2012

If Medicare cuts in the 2012 PPS rule were a sledgehammer that knocked $640 million out of this year’s home health reimbursement, the proposed 2013 PPS rule’s cut of 0.1%, or $20 million, is more like a feather duster. 

07/16/2012

Getting a survey citation could become a lot more expensive: CMS’ 2013 proposed rule contains civil money penalties, payment suspensions and other sanctions for agencies with condition-level or repeat deficiencies

07/16/2012

If a surveyor found condition-level deficiencies at your agency and you disagree with the findings, you soon may be able to take advantage of a new resolution process outlined by CMS in the proposed 2013 PPS rule. 

07/16/2012

The face-to-face encounter requirement could be less burdensome for agencies thanks to a proposed change to who’s allowed to complete the encounter. 

07/16/2012

A therapy change requested by the industry and included in the 2013 proposed PPS rule actually could add to the burden of agency schedulers

07/16/2012

In a move that could cost your agency earned reimbursement, CMS has proposed to further limit use of the diagnosis payment slot (M1024).

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