Home Health & Hospice Week
Home-Based Primary Care Saves Money, Project Shows
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Conditions of Participation:
Make Sure Your Governing Body Is Up To Tasks Required By CoPs
QAPI will make some unfamiliar demands. As you go about implementing the many new requirements [...] - Regulations:
Follow 4 Pointers For Governing Body QAPI Compliance
Get started on education efforts right away. The July 13 deadline for the new Conditions [...] - Conditions of Participation:
Examine Your Governing Body's New Responsibilities
The new CoPs will add a lot more to the plate. New governing body duties [...] - Compliance:
Governing Body's New Duties Go Beyond QAPI
Board must approve Administrator backups, new CoPs say. Under the incoming Conditions of Participation, you [...] - Hospice:
Past Years' Hospice Cap Overpayments A Moving Target
Beware reopenings — and repayments — long after the fact. If you have a number [...] - Reimbursement:
Use These 5 Steps To Cope With Cap-Based Reopenings
Tip: The PS&R report may not be enough. Medicare contractors’ recalculations of capbased overpayments for [...] - Industry Note:
Prepare For ED Use To Influence Your Star Rating
Will you be one of the 16 percent of agencies with lower ratings? You may [...] - Industry Note:
MAC Denies 1 Out Of 10 CH** Claims In Probe
You’d better make sure your documentation for patients with the highest clinical and functional domain [...] - Industry Note:
Stay On Top Of Hospice Cap Reporting Changes
You might be worried about previous years’ cap-related overpayments (see story, p. 44), but don’t [...] - Industry Note:
Beware HIC Glitch
If you’re trying to look up beneficiary information in the Common Working File and run [...] - Industry Note:
Medicare To Consolidate DME Bidding Rounds
Medicare’s competitive bidding process for DME may get a bit easier to track soon. The [...] - Industry Note:
Home-Based Primary Care Saves Money, Project Shows
The second performance year of the Independence at Home Demonstration, which provides chronically ill patients [...] - Industry Note:
Heed 2 LSC Survey Memos
Hospices with inpatient facilities can’t afford to overlook two new Survey & Certification memos about [...] - Industry Note:
Tenet To Shed Home Care
Dallas-based health system Tenet Healthcare Corp. plans to sell its home care and hospice business, [...]
