Home Health & Hospice Week
Plan Around OASIS Dead Zone This Month
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Face-To-Face:
Medicare Adds 800,000 F2Fs A Year To HHAs' Workload
Watch out if you carry a heavy managed care patient load. How you currently handle [...] - Know Your Facts:
Feds Examine Subsequent SOC Episodes For F2F
Subsequent SOC episodes have different diagnosis about ¾ of the time, data reveal. The Centers [...] - Quality:
Get Ready For A 5-Star Rating System On HH Compare
CMS proposes 10 measures for inclusion in star calculation. Wondering why you should care about [...] - Quality:
Polish Up These 10 Measures Selected To Calculate Your Star Rating
Acute hospitalization is included. Medicare officials say they gave a lot of thought to which [...] - OASIS:
Say Hello To New Year, Goodbye To Flu Confusion On OASIS-C1
Reorganization takes the guesswork out of vaccine items. The flu vaccine OASIS questions have tripped [...] - OASIS:
Boost Your Quality Measures With Accurate Vaccine Info On OASIS-C1
Do you know the ropes of the new vaccine items? The flu vaccine items aren’t [...] - HIPAA:
Emergencies Don't Trump Your HIPAA Requirements, HHS Says
Ebola sparks new HIPAA guidance. Do you know your patients’ HIPAA privacy rights in emergency [...] - Referrals:
Help Physicians Obtain Chronic Care Management Payment With These 6 Requirements
Hopefully Medicare’s red tape won’t keep your physicians from claiming their chronic care management pay. [...] - OASIS:
Prepare Now For Summer OASIS Benchmark
Tap data already available to you. Baby, it’s cold outside — but the feds are [...] - Assessment:
Look For Silver Lining In Assessment Changes
IMPACT Act could pave the way for increased home care usage. Get ready for a [...] - Industry Notes:
OIG Highlights HHA, Hospice Fraud & Noncompliance In Semiannual Report
Fraudulent Texas physician gets the spotlight. Even though the physician narrative for face-to-face goes away [...] - Industry Notes:
Budget Bill Lacks Typical Bite For 2015
Home care providers can breathe a sigh of relief as Congress has approved a 2015 [...] - Industry Notes:
Plan Around OASIS Dead Zone This Month
Reminder: The state-based OASIS submission system is scheduled to shut down permanently at 6 p.m. [...]
