Home Health & Hospice Week
Hospice Doc Pleads Guilty
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Prospective Payment System:
HHA Rates To Fall Next Year
No last-minute reprieve for HHAs on rate reduction. There isn’t much change to home health [...] - Payment:
Some Rural HHAs Take Extra Hit In PPS Final Rule
Check out your new CBSA designation. The Home Health Prospective Payment System final rule provision [...] - Face To Face:
HHAs' Hopes For F2F Relief Dashed In Final Rule
Say goodbye to the narrative, but hello to another crushing F2F burden. Home health utilization [...] - Face-To-Face:
HHAs Lose On Retroactive Relief For Physician Narrative
Keep an eye on narratives for a few more months. While home health agencies aren’t [...] - Therapy:
Therapy Reassess Deadline Lengthened To 30 Days
Final rule contains improvement. Home health agencies are happy that CMS is ditching its visit-based [...] - Diagnosis Coding:
Insulin Injection Code List May Guide Medical Review
Are you documenting everything you need to for coverage? Your insulin-injection-based claims may not get [...] - Reimbursement:
No Change To Outlier Math In 2015, Despite Requests
CMS studies how it pays for costliest patients. You won’t have an easier time accessing [...] - OASIS:
CMS Keeps Part, Nixes Part Of OASIS Benchmark
You still have to hit 70 percent in July. Gear up to reach Medicare’s new [...] - Industry Notes:
OIG Targets Home Health, Hospice In 2015 Work Plan
HHA billing, GIP top hit list. Watch for two OIG reports on HHAs to come [...] - Industry Notes:
Celebrate This Month
It’s not too late to celebrate National Home Care and Hospice Month, the National Asso-ciation [...] - Industry Notes:
Hospice Doc Pleads Guilty
A newspaper exposé about a long-stay hospice patient getting hooked on narcotics has led to [...] - Industry Notes:
Download OASIS-C1 Specs
Get a jump on OASIS-C1/ICD-9 implementation by downloading new OASIS data specs.OASIS Data Submission Specifications Version2.11.3 [...]
