Home Health & Hospice Week
Schedule Around PECOS 'Dark Days'
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Fraud & Abuse:
Take These 6 Steps To Prepare For ZPIC Audits
You can bet homebound status will be a vulnerable point. ZPIC audits are shutting down [...] - Audits:
Use These 7 Tips To Survive A ZPIC Audit
Hop on probe letters to avoid a full-blown audit. Like many home care providers nationwide, [...] - Policy:
MedPAC Sets Sights On Home Care -- Again
HHA, hospice, and DME prone to overutilization, fraud, and abuse, commission says. If you thought [...] - Diagnosis Coding:
Use This Checklist To Help You Implement ICD-9 Changes
Fewer changes this year signal that ICD-10 preparations are under way. It's that time again. [...] - Competitive Bidding:
Bidding Hearing Gives Suppliers Little Hope Of Delay
Jan. 1 implementation date for DME competitive bidding looms. Durable medical equipment suppliers hoping to [...] - Industry Notes:
New Legislation Takes Aim At Medicare Fraud
OIG powers would be expanded under bill. Congress' assault on fraud in the Medicare program [...] - Medicare Issues PECOS Enrollment Instructions For Ordering Docs.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is clearing one more obstacle from the path [...] - Guard Against Whistleblowers.
With all the new regulatory and payment burdens hitting home care providers, don't overlook an [...] - Schedule Around PECOS 'Dark Days'
You'd better reschedule any PECOSrelated work you have planned for this week. The Internet-based Provider [...] - Home Care Cuts Hurt Patients, Newspaper Says
States making big Medicaid cuts to home care are also making a big mistake. So [...] - OIG Blasts Suppliers' KX Modifier Claims
Another OIG report is projecting millions in Medicare overpayments for DME billed with the KX [...] - Keep Dates Straight Or Risk RAP Rejections
If you mix up the dates on your request for anticipated payment, you'll have to [...] - Payment Glitch Holds Up Palmetto Providers' Pay
If Palmetto is your Medicare contractor and you have claims suspending in status and location [...] - Stable Patients Equal Hospice Denials, Contractor Says
You'd better beef up documentation for your hospice patients whose conditions are holding steady, or [...]
