Home Health & Hospice Week
Looming Doc Fix Deadline Threatens Home Care
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Face-To-Face:
F2F Denials Are Growing
MAC to discontinue one therapy-focused probe. Face-to-face physician encounter denials are not easing following Medicare’s [...] - Documentation:
Review This MAC's Documentation Checklist To Protect Against Medical Necessity Denials
How well do your patients’ records tell their story? Wondering how to make sure your [...] - Medical Review:
Beef Up Documentation To Avoid Medical Necessity Pitfalls
Be sure to cover all your technical bases, too. The physician face-to-face encounter re-quirement may [...] - Hospice:
Limit Your Respite Care Billing To 5 Consecutive Days
Claims with respite care stretching more than 5 days will RTP starting this summer. Hospices [...] - Reimbursement:
Use Reopening For Certain PECOS Edit Denials, MAC Says
Good news may lighten your PECOS edit load. Don’t waste time on the resource-consuming, risky [...] - Industry Note:
HIS Implementation May Overwhelm Hospices
Take time out to watch new CMS HIS training. You can now learn more about [...] - Industry Note:
Providers Gain Much-Needed Breathing Room On Employer Mandate
Many home care providers are breathing a sigh of relief at the latest Obamacare delay. [...] - Industry Note:
Cancel NOE When Previous Hospice Asks Or For Coding Mistakes, MAC Says
If you have an error on your hospice patient’s Notice of Election (NOE), you’ll have [...] - Industry Note:
Looming Doc Fix Deadline Threatens Home Care
As the March 31 deadline for the Medi-care physician pay cut nears, home care providers [...] - Industry Note:
Know ICD-10 Testing Requirements For Next Month
March 3 is only a few weeks away, so MACs are prepping now for ICD-10 [...] - Industry Note:
Detroit HHA, Therapy Company Co-Owner Gets 10 Years In Prison
A Detroit-area HHA owner has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his 2012 [...] - Industry Note:
Beleaguered Gentiva Reveals It Will Close 46 Locations, Lay Off Hundreds Of Workers
Trying reimbursement times are leading to expansion for some and contraction for others. Gentiva Health [...]
