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Compliance:

Get To Know These New Alternative Sanctions

Published on Thu Nov 29, 2012

Payment suspension sanction gets a little less punishing. Starting next summer, surveyors may start deploying their new weapons that could sink your home health agency. HHAs should start now in getting familiar with the new survey tools, advises Washington, D.C.-based health care attorney Elizabeth Hogue. Agencies can get to know the basics in the 2013 home health prospective payment system final rule, then drill into the specifics when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issues its State Oper-ations Manual revisions and interpretive guidance on the sanctions next year. Experts predict the manual and guidance will arrive anywhere from spring to fall. Just because CMS hasn't gotten the provisions on the books, don't expect surveyors not to use the new tools, experts warn. However, at least CMS has delayed implementation of the most onerous sanctions -- civil money penalties and payment suspensions -- until July 2014. Here are the new sanctions, which [...]
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