Home Health & Hospice Week
These 8 OASIS Items Will Determine Your Functional Scores Under PGDM
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Reimbursement:
2.1% Pay Hike To Bring $400M More To HHAs Next Year
For once, HHAs have no rebasing or case mix creep cuts to contend with. For [...] - Prospective Payment System:
Medicare's New Pay Reform Proposal Looks Awfully Familiar
New PDGM is HHGM with a few tweaks. If you didn’t like Medicare’s ideas on [...] - OASIS:
These 8 OASIS Items Will Determine Your Functional Scores Under PGDM
M1800: Grooming
M1810: Current Ability to Dress Upper Body
M1820: Current Ability to [...] - Diagnosis Coding:
Check Out The Secondary Dx Groups That Will Boost PDGM Pay
CMS listened to HHGM commenters and revised the case mix category methodology. The newly proposed [...] - Billing:
Medicare Wants To Scrap RAPs Under Payment Reform
LUPAs thresholds to vary under PDGM. The home care industry may hate the idea, but [...] - Fraud & Abuse:
Proposed Rule Cites Abuses In Pushing For RAP Elimination
Will out-and-out fraudsters wreck your cash flow? If you’re wondering why Medicare wants to mess [...] - Regulations:
Medicare Provides More Info On Pay Reform This Time Around
Data helps pinpoint winners, losers under new payment system. Aside from budget neutrality, the PDGM [...] - Documentation:
Proposed Rule Snuffs Out Any Hope For Documentation Reform Based On BBA 18
HHAs can’t celebrate their independence from this hassle. While not exactly what home care providers [...] - Certification:
HHAs To See Some Relief With Physician Recert Estimates
F2F reform is what’s really needed, expert urges. After years of punishing claims denials based [...] - Industry Note:
Massive Fraud Takedown Includes Home Care Providers
Cases tick the usual fraud hot spot boxes. More proof of the feds’ increased fraud [...] - Industry Note:
MBI Card Wave 3 Starts
If you’re in a “Wave 3 state” for the new Medicare cards, your patients should [...] - Industry Note:
Stark Law Changes Under Medicare Consideration
Are Stark Law prohibitions making your life difficult — especially when it comes to patients’ [...]
