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Target These 9 Hot Spots In Your HHA Compliance Plan

Published on Tue Jul 27, 2010

Therapy should top your list of concerns. A substantial compliance plan is a must in today's environment of heightened enforcement, and that plan should tackle your organization's specificrisk areas. Since the prospective payment system began in 2000, home health agencies have undergone relatively light supervision, many experts agree. But the Obama administration's fraud and abuse fighting has ramped up and HHAs would be prudent to protect themselves with an up-to-date compliance plan. (For more compliance plan information, see Eli's HCW, Vol. XIX, Nos. 23 & 29.) Blast from the past: "We need to be prepared for more scrutiny," believes Joie Glenn of the New Mexico Association for Home and Hospice Care. Providers may need to be "reminded of topics that were discussed 'back when' and perhaps are on the shelf instead of front and center in the agency," Glenn tells Eli. Your plan needs to address the risk areas that most [...]
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