Home Health & Hospice Week
CMS Clarifies Physician Service Length Estimate
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Value-Based Purchasing:
Focus On Improvement Over Stabilization Major Drawback To Value-Based Purchasing
VBP model’s set-up will encourage providers to cherry pick patients, commenters warned. Commenters on the [...] - Prospective Payment System:
One Agency's Stabilization Scenario
HHAs serving chronic populations will suffer under VBP, commenter said. Many providers and industry reps [...] - Labor Law:
Comply With Elimination Of Companionship Exemption By Oct. 13
Start tracking hours carefully. The day many home health agencies were hoping would never come [...] - Reimbursement:
CMS Clarifies Physician Service Length Estimate
Estimate needn’t be a separate form or order, MAC says. Home health agencies are taking [...] - Hospice:
Aggressive Admissions Net Hospice $3 Million Fraud Settlement
Whistleblowers will receive half a million. If you expect your employees to keep your operational [...] - Industry Note:
Software Problems Don't Excuse You From ICD-10
Don’t submit paper claims unless you qualify for an exception. If your claim submission software [...] - Industry Note:
Access Free Benchmarks
Medicare’s PEPPER contractor is bringing out the big guns in its attempt to persuade hold-outs [...] - Industry Note:
Heed These Hospice Item Set Pointers From CMS
If you haven’t set up a HIS core team, you’re not following CMS’s advice on [...] - Industry Note:
Improper Signatures Torpedo Appeals
Don’t shoot yourself in the foot on your Medicare claims appeals. “A paper appeal (faxed [...] - Industry Note:
Hospice MCCM Demo Billing Details Released
The up-to-171 hospices that may participate in the Medicare Care Choices Model may receive less [...] - Industry Note:
Preview Your Star Rating Data For Next Quarter
Don’t be surprised if the data in your HHA star preview reports doesn’t match what [...] - Industry Note:
Health System Taps Chain To Manage Home Health Unit
The trend of health system-home care partnerships continues, this time in the form of a [...] - Industry Note:
Sunshine State HHA Joins Post-Acute Chain
Preferred Home Health Services in Orlando, Fla., has joined the Greystone Health Network in Tampa [...]
