Home Health & Hospice Week
Auditors Examine Hospice Billing In 2 States
GIP, election statements catch reviewers’ eye.
The feds continue their scrutiny of hospice care, this time in Medicaid. And the findings indicate the heat won’t let up on this area any time soon.
In one report, the HHS Office of Inspector General found Rhode Island overpaid Home and Hospice Care of Rhode Island for General Inpa-tient (GIP) care for about $28,000 of the $292,000 the hospice received for GIP. Reasons for downgrading the services to routine hospice care included insufficient documentation to prove an increase in pain and symptom management to the hospice losing the chart altogether, the OIG says in the report at http://go.usa.gov/DECC.
In another report, the OIG found that 52 of 120 sampled claims from 42 hospices didn’t meet election statement standards. The statements didn’t include required language, the OIG says in the report at http://go.usa.gov/DdFd.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Prospective Payment System:
Providers Decry Proposed Cuts As Final Rule Looms
HHA cuts will be closer to 4% next year, expert claims. When the PPS final [...] - Reimbursement:
Telehealth, F2F Head Up List Of Unreimbursed Costs
14% cut will hit all the harder. How many of these legitimate expenses go on [...] - Regulations:
Agencies Give CMS A Piece Of Their Mind On Rebasing
Medicare reimbursement cuts are unprecedented, commenters say. After years of reimbursement reductions and added regulatory [...] - Mergers & Acquisitions:
Don't Count On Cuts Going Away
Industry consolidation is at hand, experts predict. Are you one of the many HHAs sticking [...] - Hospice:
Enroll As Part B Provider Or Eat Vaccination Cost For Hospice Patients
Billing flu shots for your hospice patients may be harder than you’d think. As flu [...] - Industry Note:
Auditors Examine Hospice Billing In 2 States
GIP, election statements catch reviewers’ eye. The feds continue their scrutiny of hospice care, this [...] - Industry Note:
Use This Free Tool To Improve
Looking for ideas on boosting care quality at your agency? The Visiting Nurse Associations of [...] - Industry Note:
Check Out New Medicare Cost Report Forms
Keep up to date on home health agency cost reports forms. CMS has released new [...] - Industry Note:
Hospitals To Combine HHA Management, Not Agencies
Three Oklahoma hospitals want to combine forces to furnish home care and hospice services more [...] - Industry Note:
Gentiva Diversifies Payors With Major Acquisition
Gentiva Health Services Inc. plans to acquire Harden Healthcare Inc.’s home health, hospice and community [...] - Industry Note:
HHA Owner, Clinical Director Charged With Fraud
Two RNs have been charged in a $27 million Medicare fraud scheme in the Boston [...] - Industry Note:
LA Owner To Pay $15 Million To Settle Fraud Charges
A federal judge has ordered a Los Ange-les HHA owner who pled guilty to Medicare [...] - Industry Note:
MAC: Mark These Days On Your Calendar
You might not want to plan to catch up on claims system-related work Oct. 3-5. [...]
