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Industry Note:

Beat OASIS Matching Edit With These Tips

Published on Fri May 25, 2018

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Home Health & Hospice Week

Targeted Probe & Educate:
Whopping 80% Of Reviewed HHAs Flunk TPE
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Compliance:
F2F Tops Targeted Probe & Educate Denial Reasons
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Medical Review:
Criteria To Get Off TPE A Bit Easier Than Probe & Educate
Expert: Crucial data missing from TPE report. One HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor's TPE results report [...]

HIPAA:
Closing Your Agency's Doors Won't Close Out Your HIPAA Responsibilities
Warning: Proper disposal of Protected Health Information is an OCR hot spot. Ensuring the safety [...]

Human Resources:
Phrase Your Employee Feedback Constructively
Watch out for this common supervisory mistake when furnishing staff criticism. Your employees look to [...]

Industry Note:
Beat OASIS Matching Edit With These Tips
Resubmitting the same claim without changing anything won't help. Autocorrection of the Medicare beneficiary number [...]

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Hospice TPE Results Held Up
Home health agencies might be getting some vital Targeted Probe & Educate info from HHH [...]

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Medicare Focuses On Rural DME
On the heels of Medicare's Rural Health Strategy announcement (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XXVII, No. [...]

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Check This Hospice List
In light of increasing medical review from an array of sources, hospices may want to [...]

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MBIs From MAC Portal Lookup OK To Use
Don't worry about getting your patients' new Medicare numbers before they do using the newly [...]

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ESRD Patients Underserved By Hospice
Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease aren't receiving as much hospice care as they should. So [...]

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Shorter HH Visits Increase Hospital Readmissions
Looking for a way to achieve the holy grail of reducing your patients' hospital readmissions? [...]

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Health System Partners With Private Duty Co
Another approach to reducing hospitalizations can be seen in a new private pay partnership. Salt Lake [...]

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Compare Data Updated
Take a look at your data on Hospice Compare, if you haven't done so since [...]

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MI HHA Owner Guilty
Detroit-area home health agency owner Zahir Shah had pled guilty to Medicare fraud charges in [...]

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