Home Health & Hospice Week
Ease Your PECOS Edit Appeals Burden With Reopenings
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Face-To-Face:
Employ These 6 Strategies To Prevent F2F Meltdown
Guarantee: New contractor will review your face-to-face physician encounter documentation. Despite an OIG report that [...] - Compliance:
Build A Better F2F Form With These Tips
Will checkboxes help or hinder your face-to-face compliance? Your path to optimal face-to-face compliance may [...] - Documentation:
Provide These Narrative Examples To Your Physicians To Improve F2F Compliance
Three sentences is all it takes to get into compliance — but they must be [...] - Reader Question:
Handle Existing Meds This Way On Hospice Claims
MACs answer agencies’ questions about drug reporting in newly expanded Q&As. Reader Question: What do [...] - Fraud & Abuse:
Whistleblowers Net $26 Million From Amedisys Settlement
Government finalizes $150 million fraud settlement and releases surprising details. The $150 million settlement of [...] - Industry Notes:
Ease Your PECOS Edit Appeals Burden With Reopenings
Tip: Don’t bother filing a reopening if your doc isn’t yet in PECOS. If you’re [...] - Industry Notes:
Lack Of OASIS Support #1 Denial Reason
Lack of documentation for OASIS M0 items edged out face-to-face as the chief reason for [...] - Industry Notes:
Study: Med Management Helps Some Patients Avoid Hospital
Your lowest risk patients may benefit from medication management to reduce rehospitalizations, but it probably [...] - Industry Notes:
MAC Gets Ready To Recoup FISS Glitch Overpayments
If you received an overpayment related to sequestration, it’ll soon be time to pay it [...] - Industry Notes:
Hospital Agencies Merge With Competitors
Market consolidation continues. In Dan-ville, Pa., Geisinger Community Health Services and SUN Home Health & [...] - Industry Notes:
Okla. Hospice Owner, Manager Charged With Medicare Fraud
Allegedly lying in an audit has landed a hospice owner and general manager on the [...] - Industry Notes:
Texas HHA Biller Faces False Claims Charges
It’s not just the boss who goes to jail for Medicare fraud. Case in point: [...]
