Home Health & Hospice Week
Aug. 7 Deadline Looms
Look in your mail or your QIES CASPER folder to see whether CMS is going to cut your payment rates for Hospice Quality Reporting Program failings. Medicare Administrative Contractors mailed and placed into QIES CASPER folders “non-compliance notifications” for HQRP July 9, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in a message to providers. The notices, which communicate hospices’ compliance with 2017 requirements, will affect 2019 payments that start Oct. 1. “If you receive a letter of non-compliance, you may submit a request for reconsideration to CMS via email no later than 11:59 pm PT on August 7,” CMS says. Reconsideration request information is at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Hospice-Quality-Reporting/Reconsideration-Requests.html.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- OASIS:
New Set Of OASIS Q&As Address Manual Change
For M2102f, official diagnosis not necessary. Medicare has followed up on its promise to resume [...] - Patient-Driven Groupings Model:
CMS Suggests Swapping RAPs For Notices Of Admission
Watch out for NOE-like disaster, expert warns. One payment reform change Medicare is considering could [...] - Hospice:
Know Your New Hospice Billing Ins And Outs
System changes ease NOE corrections. It’s essential to stay up to date on Medicare billing [...] - Regulations:
HEART Testing Pushed Back Following Pilot
HQRP training, Hospice Compare refresh also discussed in forum. It looks to be a while [...] - Appeals:
Court Grants Potential Overpay Breathing Room
A 43-claim audit led to $7.9 million overpayment demand. A federal court decision issued last [...] - Industry Note:
GAO Highlights Home Health As Fraud Risk Priority
CMS lacks risk assessment, report says. Medicare officials have a way to go in enhancing [...] - Industry Note:
Aug. 7 Deadline Looms
Look in your mail or your QIES CASPER folder to see whether CMS is going [...] - Industry Note:
Download Your New HH PEPPER Report
Home health agencies can download their updated PEPPER benchmarking reports now. The Q4CY17 release includes [...] - Industry Note:
Find Out How Testing Of IMPACT Act Data Is Going
Receive IMPACT Act information and give CMS your two cents on the matter in a [...] - Industry Note:
Claim System Snafu Suspends Claims In Error
Heads up for this claims system glitch: Part A claims including those for home health [...] - Industry Note:
Humana Completes Monster Hospice Merger
Humana Inc. and its private equity firm partners have completed their high-profile acquisitions of Kindred [...] - Industry Note:
Great Lakes-NHHC-Jordan Merger Renamed Elara
The newly formed company that combines Great Lakes Caring, National Home Health Care, and Jordan [...] - Industry Note:
Phishing Scams Hook 2 Hospice Employees
Tighten up your employee training on HIPAA, or face potential embarrassment over even minor breaches. [...]
