Home Health & Hospice Week
You'll Need To Answer For These 2 New Quality Measures In 2022
Home Health & Hospice Week
- OASIS:
Brace For Burdensome New OASIS-E Tool
CMS promises HHAs ample prep time with “early 2020” release. If you think OASIS is [...] - Quality:
You'll Need To Answer For These 2 New Quality Measures In 2022
Plus: Watch for 3 new OASIS items on medication list transfers to debut in about [...] - Assessment:
Plan Your OASIS-E Ramp-Up For These New Items Next Year
Are you prepared to answer questions on patients’ social isolation, health literacy, and more? Since [...] - Policies & Procedures:
Decide Early What Should Be On Your Reconciled Medication List
For example: The patient’s preferred language may be a good thing to include, CMS suggests. [...] - Regulations:
OASIS-E Will Swap 1 Pain Question Out For 3
CAHPS question on pain remains intact. The federal government’s fight against opioid overuse and abuse [...] - OASIS:
New SPADEs Should Ease OASIS Pain Concerns
Items address sleep, therapy, and day-to-day activities. These three new OASIS items on pain will [...] - Industry Note:
Forget That New RAP Recoupment Process
CMS goes back to the old way. Medicare is backtracking on new instructions that could [...] - Industry Note:
OIG Finds Improper CCM Payments
A potential crackdown on chronic care management service payments to physicians could have a chilling [...] - Industry Note:
CMS Takes Applications For SIP Model
Hospices interested in participating in Medicare’s forthcoming Primary Care First Model’s Seriously Ill Population (SIP) [...] - Industry Note:
Medicare Ups Patient Pay Portion For 2020
Your Medicare patients will pay more in the new year. The standard monthly premium for [...] - Reader Question:
Beware Billing Snarls Due To MSP Glitch
Watch out for a lag in MSP information for your patients — and related billing [...] - Industry Note:
CMS Wants Your Thoughts On Stark Changes
Do you have thoughts about the newly proposed changes to the Stark law (see Eli’s [...]
