Home Health & Hospice Week
Check Out New Physician Payment Website.
The feds are trying to make it easier for you to figure out exactly how much your referring physicians will earn by billing for their home health and hospice certifications, recertifications, and care plan oversight. CMS has a new website where you can look up any physician HCPCS code and obtain the payment amount. On the site, you can also select a specific locality from a drop-down menu to determine the geographically adjusted payment amount physicians will receive from Medicare. The website is at www.cms.gov/apps/physician-fee-schedule/overview.aspx. Physicians use G1079 for home health episode recertification, G0180 for the initial cert, G0181 for HHA care plan oversight, and G0182 for hospice CPO. For example: In San Mateo, Calif., Medicare pays docs $38.94 for G1079 (home health episode recert), $51.24 for G0180 (initial cert), $101.68 for G0181 (HHA CPO), and $103.48 for G0182 (hospice CPO).
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Regulations:
Face-To-Face HHA Requirement Could Slash Your Patient Census
Agencies will have little control over new physician-related payment condition. Home health agencies are hoping [...] - Referrals:
Are You Prepared To Discharge Patients Based On The Face-To-Face Physician Visit?
Small providers will bear the brunt of the new rule's impact, expert predicts. Home health [...] - Hospice:
Hospice Face-to-Face Encounter Rule Could Block Patient Access
Keep new regulatory costs in check with help from nurse practitioners. Hospice physicians will be [...] - Hospice:
Hospice Providers Look For Face-To-Face Answers
The countdown to the final rule begins. The proposed face-to-face hospice encounter rule stirs up [...] - Reimbursement:
Edits Hit Hospice Claims For Lymphoma, Myeloma Patients
How well does your documentation support patients' six-month prognosis? You need to sharpen your terminal [...] - Industry Notes:
Hospices Stay Out Of Assisted Suicide Fray
One-quarter of Ore.'s hospices don't participate in physician-assisted death process, study finds. Oregon's assisted suicide [...] - Check Out New Physician Payment Website.
The feds are trying to make it easier for you to figure out exactly how [...] - Intermediary Clinches MAC Contract.
The transition from regional home health intermediary to Home Health and Hospice Medicare Administration Contractor [...] - Medicaid Covers Hospice And Curative Care For Kids
CMS has given state Medicaid programs their marching orders about furnishing hospice to children while [...] - Protect Your Medicare Identity In PECOS
Don't let Medicare fraudsters steal your Medicare identity and ruin your billing and compliance record [...] - Payment Cuts Poised To Hit Part B Therapy
Home health agencies that furnish Part B outpatient therapy can't afford to ignore physician fee [...] - Document Patient Transfer Efforts Like This, RHHI Says
If you're wondering how to prove that you looked up a beneficiary in the Health [...] - HHA Nurse Found Not Guilty Of Patient Neglect
How much are your nurses on the hook for their patients' condition? Not as much [...] - Another N.Y. County Switches To Private Home Care
Another county-run home health agency in New York looks likely to transition to private ownership. [...]
