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Beware These Eyes Looking Over Your Shoulder

Published on Sun Oct 10, 2010

States are looking at hospice-nursing home relationships. It's not just intermediaries and surveyors examining your patient records these days. There are at least 10 different government contractors and agencies who can leaf through your charts, including: Home Health and Hospice Medicare Administrative Contractors. Whether your contractor is Palmetto GBA, CGS, or National Government Services/NHIC, reviewers can ADR your claims. Recovery Audit Contractors. RACs may not have hit hospice directly yet, noted Debra Sellers, director of home care services for St. John's Health System in Springfield, Mo, at the NationalAssociation for Home Care & Hospice annual meeting in Las Vegas. But they are making recoupments from durable medical equipment suppliers who furnished equipment in hospice benefit periods. Don't be surprised to see hospices hit soon, Sellers told attendees at her Oct. 4 education session. Find out which of the four RACs is yours at www.cms.gov/recovery-audit-program. Medicaid Integrity Contractors. MICs have [...]
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