Home Health & Hospice Week
Medicare Trust Fund Is Safe A Little Longer
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Documentation:
Beef Up Your Intake Process As ICD-10 Looms
Start at the beginning to improve documentation. Your intake department has an opportunity to gather [...] - Hospice:
Add Hospice Cap Calculation, Repayment To Your To-Do List
CMS implements new aggregate cap procedures but leaves inpatient cap as-is. If you fail to [...] - Know Your Facts:
Feds Used These Stats To Decide On Your Cap Requirements
More than one in 10 hospices exceeds its per patient cap. Wondering why the Centers [...] - Fraud & Abuse:
Strike Force Cities Rack Up Indictments, Guilty Pleas
Shady physicians, a fugitive nurse, and more figure in home care fraud heat wave. It’s [...] - Industry Notes:
Eliminate Manifestation Codes As Primary Before Jan. 1
Incorrect diagnosis code reporting could bounce your claims back to you when new edits hit. [...] - Industry Notes:
Learn Drug Reporting Lessons From New MAC Tool
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may have fixed the claims system glitch affecting [...] - Industry Notes:
State Supreme Court Nixes Alzheimer's Lawsuits
Your employees won’t be able to sue your clients for injuries that occur when caring [...] - Industry Notes:
'Confined To Home' Definition Hits The Books -- Again
Nearly three years later, CMS’s regs are catching up with its rulemaking. In the 2012 [...] - Industry Notes:
Medicare Trust Fund Is Safe A Little Longer
The latest Medicare Trustees’ Report released last month offers some good news and bad news [...] - Industry Notes:
Don't Forget Wage Index Change For 2015
You can look at your new hospice payment rates in an official Change Request to [...] - Industry Notes:
Texas HHA Faces Suit Over Murdered Family Member
Your policies on checking out your workers before hiring them may save you in a [...] - Industry Notes:
Long-Term Care Chain Makes L.A. Acquisition
The Ensign Group Inc. has acquired Angeles Home Health Care in Los Angeles, the L.A.-based [...]
