Home Health & Hospice Week
Here's How Providers Can Quickly Certify Hospice Patients' Terminal Illnesses.
Take the guesswork out of the physician narrative requirement. You have less than one month to comply with the new physician narrative requirement -- but you don't have to go it alone. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services demands that beginning October 1, physicians must include "a brief narrative explanation of the clinical findings that support a life expectancy of [six] months or less" when they certify (or recertify) hospice patients as being terminally ill, according to the final hospice rule published in the August 6 Federal Register. Good news: Regional home health intermediary Cahaba GBA is helping you streamline this potentially headache-inducing process. The RHHI offers this sample document* as a guideline for all hospices to use as they develop policies and procedures for complying with the physician narrative requirement: * Cahaba included a disclaimer that each agency must ensure its certification and recertification forms are correct. View the resource at www.cahabagba.com/rhhi/education/materials/quick_hospice_certification.pdf.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- HIPAA:
Update Patients On Privacy And Security Breaches.
Interim final rule outlines your responsibility for protecting patients' data. You know that you must [...] - Regulations:
Create A Policy To Take Back Patients' Unused Controlled Drugs Safely
You can protect family members from drugrelated accidents after a patient's death. Scenario: Your hospice [...] - DMEPOS:
CMS Pushes Suppliers To Act On Non-Accreditation.
Act now to avoid a year-long revocation of billing privileges. The deadline for DMEPOS suppliers [...] - Hospice:
Here's How Providers Can Quickly Certify Hospice Patients' Terminal Illnesses.
Take the guesswork out of the physician narrative requirement. You have less than one month [...] - OASIS:
Here Are 2 Fall Risks You May Have Overlooked.
Add these risk factors to your agency's falls risk assessment. If your patient uses a [...] - Coding:
Knock Out Diabetes Coding Confusion.
These four questions will clear your path to correct coding. Knowing how to code correctly [...] - Industry Notes:
Wheelchair Suppliers Balk At OIG Report.
Suppliers' costs keep wheelchairs from being a cash crop. Industry insiders take exception to the [...] - Industry Notes:
Palmetto Offers New Falls Risk Code To Help Agencies Spot Problems
If you know whether your patients are at risk for falls, you can avoid them -- [...] - Industry Notes:
Home Health Agencies Most Satisfied With Medicare, New MCPSS Says
Home health agencies are more satisfied with Medicare than almost every other provider type, according [...] - Industry Notes:
: Federal Register Issues Revised Wage Index Tables For Hospice Final Rule
If you thought you were seeing double when you looked at the Federal Register this [...] - Industry Notes:
: Cahaba GBA Launches New Site For Results Of Widespread Probe Edits
You have a new source of information for widespread probe edits. Cahaba GBA has created [...]
