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Follow This Checklist To Keep Your Episodes From Overlapping
Published on Tue Aug 25, 2009
And make sure you get all the payment you've earned. The last thing you need is to lose out on reimbursement because you didn't realize a patient is receiving care from another agency. Regional home health intermediary Palmetto GBA offers this checklist to help you smoothly admit new patients -- even those transferring from somewhere else: -- Log onto HIQH by typing "HIQH" on the main screen and entering the appropriate username and password. -- Fill in the appropriate beneficiary information required on the first screen and hit ENTER. Be sure to enter the start of care date in the APP FIELD. -- Review the information found on page 3 of HIQH to determine all prior home health episodes. Be sure to print out page 3 and date stamp it for the beneficiary's records. Should a situation arise regarding a billing conflict this information will be requested by Palmetto GBA. Once you have accessed [...]