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Home Health & Hospice Week

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Tune In To Free Hospice Composite Measure Webinar

Published on Fri May 28, 2021

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Home Health & Hospice Week

Labor Law:
Apply Independent Contractor Designation Carefully After Regulatory Change
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Compliance:
Do Your Contractors Measure Up Under These 7 ‘Economic Realities’ Factors?
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Audits:
Protect Yourself From Audits With These 5 Tips
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COVID-19:
Vaccine Incentive Rules For Employees, Patients Get Clearer
Use these important safeguards to offer incentives to patients. Sooner than you think, you may [...]

Fraud & Abuse:
Physicians Take Center Stage In Home Health Fraud
Kickbacks for referrals, certs, and more land docs in the courtroom. A federal jury has [...]

Mergers & Acquisitions:
Home Health Company Launches Joint Venture
Plus: Hospice deals continue to flourish. Alternate Solutions Health Network and The Ohio State University [...]

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CMS Administrator Finally Confirmed
Home health, hospice representatives welcome Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has [...]

Industry Notes:
HCBS Reporting Hits Federal Register
If you’d like to give Medicare your two cents on the reporting required of states [...]

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Submit NOEs Electronically, CMS Urges
CMS thinks hospices can do better regarding electronic submission of Notices of Election. After Medicare [...]

Industry Notes:
Tune In To Free Hospice Composite Measure Webinar
Find out more about Medicare’s new Hospice Quality Composite Measure and how it differs from [...]

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Peek At NOA Instructions To MACs
You’ve now got more home health NOA information at your fingertips. The Centers for Medicare [...]

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Beware Kickbacks From Software Co
If you feel like you’ve been doing a good job fending off any illegal kickbacks, [...]

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Heed OIG's Vaccination Billing Don'ts
The HHS Office of Inspector General has vehemently reminded COVID-19 vaccine providers that recipients are [...]

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