Home Health & Hospice Week
OIG Highlights Hospice GIP For Scrutiny
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Prospective Payment System:
Take These 10 Steps To Tackle Rebasing Cuts
Tip: Know your stats like the back of your hand. Now that rebasing cuts have [...] - Reimbursement:
Diversify Your Payers, But Beware Of Low Rates
Toughen up your rate negotiation tactics. With Medicare profit margins sinking lower and lower over [...] - Strategy:
Keep These Tips In Mind When Pursuing Growth
To achieve efficiencies and economies of scale required by the newly reduced PPS rates, home [...] - Human Resources:
Pass It On: 5 Ways To Keep Employees Informed
Use regular newsletters and company-wide meetings to let your employees in on important organizational changes. [...] - Industry Note:
Get Ready For Hospice Item Set Implementation
HIS manual, training video coming. Your crash course in the new data collection tool for [...] - Industry Note:
Medicare Increases Its Focus On Hospitalizations
You aren’t the only ones getting the third degree for hospital transfers. Skilled nursing facilities [...] - Industry Note:
Medicare Cracks Down On Transfer Prorations
You may see increased pushback from hospitals that had eluded proration of DRGs for patients [...] - Industry Note:
Ready, Set, Submit Your Hospice Quality Data
You may now submit your Hospice Qual-ity Reporting Program (HQRP) data for 2013 on CMS’s [...] - Industry Note:
OIG Highlights Hospice GIP For Scrutiny
The OIG hasn’t overlooked hospices in its latest semiannual report to Congress. The watchdog agency [...] - Industry Note:
You Must Handle Your Own Managed Care Disputes
If you’ve got a payment dispute with a Medicare Advantage Organization, you’ll be on your [...] - Industry Note:
Docs' Personal Preferences Drive Hospice Timing
Physician preference, rather than pa-tient preference, may be guiding hospice utilization more often than widely [...] - Industry Note:
Accrediting Body Whittles Home Care Requirements
Home health agencies accredited by the Joint Commission have nine less requirements to worry about. [...] - Industry Note:
Another Prominent Newspaper Addresses Hospice Care
After a scathing exposé on for-profit hospices recruiting long-stay patients, the New York Times is [...] - Reader Question:
Use These Precautions When E-Mailing Patient Info
Watch your step or you’ll violate HIPAA. Reader Question: I sometimes e-mail pa-tient records [...]
