Home Health & Hospice Week
Brace For Long Battle Over Companionship Exemption
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Hospice:
Hospice Payment Reform On The Horizon
The final structure may surprise you. Skilled visits in the last days of death and [...] - Know Your Facts:
Sunday Deaths Much Less Likely To See Skilled Visits
Live discharges grow from 13% to 18% over decade. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...] - Payment:
Take A Look At This Tiered Payment Model For Hospice
Certain routine days would pay more than $500 in one payment system iteration. Exactly what [...] - Referrals:
Help Your Physician Referral Sources Access More Payment
20 eligible patients could earn your docs up to $10,000 annually. Physicians referring complex patients [...] - Reimbursement:
Review Scope of CCM Services With Your Docs
CMS uses existing criteria for new physician Chronic Care Management payments. The Centers for Medicare [...] - Referrals:
Help Docs Know Their CCM Practitioner Arsenal
Good news: General supervision a go. Unlike the original Chronic Care Manage-ment proposal, the final [...] - Industry Notes:
F2F Delay Isn't Out Of The Question
How much noise are you willing to make? Once Jan. 1 passed, many home health [...] - Industry Notes:
MedPAC Highlights Profit Margins
As expected, the Medicare Payment Ad-visory Commission will once again urge Congress to reduce home [...] - Industry Notes:
Submit HIS Data Or Face 2017 Pay Reductions
The Hospice Item Set data you’re submitting now will affect your 2017 payment rates, the [...] - Industry Notes:
Put This ICD-10 Site In Your Training Toolbox
CMS continues to help providers prepare for the Oct. 1 transition date to ICD-10. One [...] - Industry Notes:
Review Your Discharge Ins and Outs
Brush up on your discharge responsibilities with a new booklet from CMS. For example: “A [...] - Industry Notes:
Don't Count On Extensions When It Comes To ADRs
When you get a documentation request from your MAC or another Medicare entity (such as [...] - Industry Notes:
Brace For Long Battle Over Companionship Exemption
You may still be doing your happy dance over the recent federal court ruling vacating [...] - Industry Notes:
CMS Administrator Departs Next Month
Say goodbye to CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner. The former nurse will resign at the end [...]
