Industry Notes:
Wait Until October for These Home Health Payment Fixes
Published on Tue Jun 30, 2015
If you’ve seen problems with your home health agency claims re-coding incorrectly this year, you aren’t alone. Medicare is fixing the issue — but not until the fall. Problem #1: The 2015 HH Pricer currently uses a table that contains incorrect case-mix weights for all HIPPS codes beginning with “4,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) explains in recent MLN Matters article MM9198. [...]