Home Health & Hospice Week
Follow This Advice To Prepare Now For HIPAA Audits
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Prospective Payment System:
CMS Proposes $180 Million Cut To Home Health Pay In 2017
Repeated cuts will lead to access problems. The number of home health agencies, users, and [...] - Know Your Facts:
CMS Bases Reimbursement Decisions On These Stats
Home health agencies continue to get squeezed by lower payment rates, despite declining statistics cited [...] - Payment:
LUPAs Go Up While Supplies Go Down
Rebasing passes LUPAs by. Home health agencies may feel under-reimbursed for their services to Medicare [...] - Prospective Payment System:
Prepare For Major Changes To Outlier Reimbursement
New winners, losers under methodology revamp. Time will be of the essence when it comes [...] - Outliers:
CMS Proposes Outlier Safeguards Under New Calculation Method
FDL will increase under time-based system. Medicare officials have already anticipated ways to game the [...] - Value-Based Purchasing:
Significant Tweaks To VBP On Deck
Just who your agency is compared to can make or break your VBP payments. The [...] - Value-Based Purchasing:
VBP Appeals Function Clarified, Expanded
Plus 4 measures dropped. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services also proposes these changes [...] - Supplies:
More Reimbursement For Wound Care Patients Using NPWT Proposed
Consolidated billing exception in the works. A rare carve-out for non-routine medical supplies could put [...] - Pre-Claim Review:
HHAs Receive Pre-Claim Review Instructions
Physician signature requirement will be a major obstacle to payment under demo. Home health agencies [...] - Pre-Claim Review:
Pre-Claim Review Documentation Requirements
In its new operational guide for pre-claim review, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [...] - Make The Most Of Your Eli's Home Care Week Subscription
You have more than a decade’s worth of information on a multitude of home health [...] - HIPAA:
Other Shoe Drops With HIPAA Audits
Hundreds of providers will receive HIPAA scrutiny this year. You’ve been hearing for years that [...] - HIPAA:
Follow This Advice To Prepare Now For HIPAA Audits
Check and double-check your HIPAA policies and procedures. The HHS Office for Civil Rights’ new [...] - Industry Note:
HHAs Stuck With Loss Of Companionship Exemption -- At Least For Now
Remedy still sought. The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the industry’s challenge to [...] - Industry Note:
OASIS-C2 Manual Out
Get ready for OASIS-C2’s January implementation by reading the tool’s new guidance manual, which the [...] - Industry Note:
HHA PEPPERs Hit In July
Mark your calendar to download the next installment of free billing benchmarks from Medicare. Around [...] - Industry Note:
Chain To Go To Charity
Bayada Home Health Care CEO J. Mark Baiada plans to donate the home care chain [...]
