Home Health & Hospice Week
CMS Administrator Finally Up For Confirmation
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Hospice:
Hospice Payment Reform Is Knocking On Your Door
Prepare now for variable rates under the Medicare hospice benefit. All that visit data you’ve [...] - Know Your Facts:
Skyrocketing Hospice Statistics Contribute To Payment Shift Motivation
Average LOS increased 50 percent from 2000 to 2007. Here are the statistics that law- [...] - Payment:
Hospice Payment Change Will Create Winners, Losers
Profit margins to drop for hospices with long-staypatients in U-shaped model, MedPAC expects. Like any [...] - Diagnosis Coding:
Hospice Payment Changes Won't Stop With Variable Rates
Other elements on the horizon: case mix, site of service considerations. Law- and policymakers are [...] - Reimbursement:
MAC Cuts Off RAP Payments For HHAs With Too Many Cancels
Expect this cash-flow draining tactic to spread across the country. If you’re letting too many [...] - Industry Note:
CMS Delays PECOS Edits
Plus: Use RAP non-payment as early warning of PECOS edit problem. Home health agencies now have [...] - Industry Note:
Self-Disclosure Heads Off CIA Under New Policy
If you discover improprieties that you must self-disclose to the HHS Office of Inspector General, [...] - Industry Note:
Beware This Claims Payment Snafu For Low-Visit Claims
A system glitch is resulting in remittance advice errors for LUPA claims. "For Low Utilization [...] - Industry Note:
Incorrect Hospice PEPPER Reports Go Out -- Again
Don’t base any big initiatives on your hospice PEPPER report data quite yet. About half [...] - Industry Note:
CMS Administrator Finally Up For Confirmation
Congress is one step closer to confirming Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Act-ing Administrator [...] - Industry Note:
OIG Asks For More Fraud-Fighting Funds
If it feels like the OIG uses more re-sources to go after inappropriately billed and [...] - Industry Note:
Ohio Agency Owes $700K After Audit
If it’s not documented, it’s not done. That maxim proved true once again in an [...] - Industry Note:
HHA Office Manager Convicted In Fraud Scheme
A federal jury in Detroit has convicted the office manager of a home health agency [...] - Industry Note:
Provider Lays Off Staff In Face Of Sequestration
Sequestration cuts, on top of other financial and regulatory burdens, continue to take a toll [...]
