Home Health Line
03/19/2012

Make sure your nurses are communicating with physicians on a regular basis, as well as properly documenting that communication, when you bill for skilled nursing code G0163 (observation and assessment).

03/19/2012

Expect stepped-up scrutiny of your claims by payment and fraud contractors following a new report by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG).

03/19/2012

CMS has made changes to improve user-friendliness of the provider enrollment, chain and ownership system (PECOS).

03/12/2012

It pays to challenge the findings of a zone program integrity contractor (ZPIC) audit: Many providers have been able to reclaim the vast majority of challenged reimbursement at the first, second and third levels of appeal.

03/12/2012

Don’t let scoring mistakes on Home Health Compare slip by you – make sure you’re prepared to assess and understand your publicly reported patient satisfaction measures before they appear on the website in April.

03/12/2012

Make sure you have the most complete data possible on patient satisfaction by taking steps to improve your response rates on the Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HH-CAHPS) survey.

03/12/2012

New details on the ICD-10 delay were scarce at the ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting in Baltimore on March 5. 

03/12/2012

Don’t let your agency fall victim to an underestimation of your audit risk. With Medicare auditors ramping up their scrutiny of home health, you need to be ready to justify every service your agency provides.

03/12/2012

Ensure your agency takes proper precautions to keep clinicians safe from attack while working in the field. 

03/12/2012

CMS has been working on implementing less severe punishments for agencies with state survey deficiencies that don’t warrant termination from the Medicare program – since 1987.

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