Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Notes:

Wait Until October For These Payment Fixes

Date set for correction of 2 recoding errors. If you’ve seen problems with your home health agency claims re-coding incorrectly this year, you aren’t alone. Now Medicare is fixing the issue — but not until the fall. Problem #1: The 2015 HH Pricer currently uses a table that contains incorrect case-mix weights for all HIPPS codes beginning with “4,” the [...]
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