Home Health & Hospice Week
Medical Necessity Ranks In Next Tier Of TPE Denials
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Targeted Probe & Educate:
Medical Necessity Ranks In Next Tier Of TPE Denials
You’ve seen the top denial reasons, now look at the rest. Santa shouldn’t be the [...] - Medical Review:
Review Choice Demo Exchanges One Medical Review Burden For Another
Here’s why you didn’t see these key states in Palmetto’s TPE results. Where are some [...] - Payment:
Medicare Margin Climbs In Latest Reckoning
MedPAC readies yet another steep rate-cut recommendation. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission officials seem to think [...] - Hospice:
MedPAC Paves Way For Hospice Cut Recommendation
Hospice spending surpasses home health. A profit margin that keeps creeping up is one factor [...] - Audits:
Note These New Hospice-Related RAC Targets
Medicare cracks down on hospice bundling. Unlike home health agencies, hospices don’t have any Recovery [...] - Reimbursement:
Add Denied Claims Check-In To Your End-Of-Year To-Do List
Tip: Encrypt your emailed documentation per HIPAA, CERT contractor says. It may not be as [...] - Industry Note:
Know Corrective Action Plan Ins And Outs For RAP Trouble
Warning: Deadline is tight to submit CAP. If your RAP practices have gotten sloppy, you’d [...] - Industry Note:
Claims With Overlapping Dates Cause Confusion
If you’re running into U5181 claims returns and can’t figure out why, you may want [...] - Industry Note:
Give CMS Your 2 Cents On AOs
Do you think there’s something shady about accrediting organizations and the financial relationships they have [...] - Industry Note:
IRS Increases Mileage Rate By 3.5 Cents
Providers that have travel reimbursement policies linked to the Internal Revenue Service mileage rate should [...] - Industry Note:
MAC Look-up Tools Switch Entirely To MBIs
Just because you get an MBI number for a beneficiary from your MAC’s system, doesn’t [...] - Industry Note:
Hurricane Waivers Come To An End
Home care providers in the Southeast impacted by this fall’s hurricanes should take note that [...] - Industry Note:
Whistleblowers Get Big Chunk Of $5.9M Hospice Settlement
Two former hospice employees will rake in $1.1 million of the $5.9 million settlement nine [...] - Industry Note:
LHC-Lifepoint Venture Makes Buys In 2 States
A joint venture by LHC Group and LifePoint Health have purchased and will share share [...] - Industry Note:
Share HIPAA Load-Lightening Suggestions With The Feds
You have until Feb. 11 to give the feds a piece of your mind on [...]
